ShARECROPPER GETS hEARIRG IR R. JERSEY ON EXTRADITION CHARGES 5c AT YOUR DRUG STORE 1 /jy/EQUAUn HEW TO THEUNE LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND VORTH OF K *NSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS ActSofCMa;Sa8S!ml-Busines" phcn^wE. Nebraska Saturday, Sept 12,1942 Our 15th Year, No. 31 City Edition, 5c Copy WAR DEPT’MENT WANTS MORE WOMEN Uncover New Evidence IN LOUISIANA “SC0TTSB0R0 CASE" NAACP PREPARING APPEAL FOR SOLDIERS CONDEMNED TO DEATH New York....An appeal from the death sentence for three colored soldiers convicted for rape in Alex andria, La., is being prepared by lawyers for the National Associat ion for the Advancement of Color ed People, it was announced here this week. Formal notice of appeal was fil ed August 13, by lawyers, who were appointed to defend the three sol*' iers in the civil court. At that time, after the first trial, the con viction and the death sentence, tho case was brought to the attention Of he NAACP and parents of one of the men asked NAACP aid in fight ing the case further. The oonvicted men are Privates Richard Adams, a volunteer, of Columbus, Ohio, John Walter Bordenave, New Orleans. La. and Lawrence Mitchell of Michigan. The NAA.CP has forty days from the date of the conviction, August 11, to prepare the appeal. Thur good Marshall, NAACP special coun sel. and other lawyers are awaiting the transcript of testimony in the first trial in Order to proceed with the case. • "We do not know exactly what can be done until we see the trans cript of testimony,’ Marshall said. "We do not know how strong or weak the record is. We know noth ing about how much effort the court appointed lawyers made to defend their clients or save points in the record on which a good appeal could be based, but we will do the best we can with what is handed to ! hs.” Marshall will go to Louisiana to aid local lawyers in preparation Of the appeal. SOLDIERS MOVED TO NEW ORLEANS FOR SAFE KEEPING NEW ORLEANS. LA., (ANP) — Sept. 10—New evidence broke this week in the case of the Alexandria, La., soldiers sentenced to die Oct. 30 for the alleged attack on a whito waitress at Camp Claiborne, when it became an established fact that One of the charged men is an es caped inmate from an Ohio institu tion for'the feeble minded. The statement was made by C. O. Kirk, superintendent of the state institution for the feeble minded of Orient, O., in a letter sent Reid and Cox, attorneys at law, Columbus. O. The letter charged that Richard Adams was admitted to the Colum bus institution Nov. 23, 1931, and transferred to Orient, Dec. 30, 1931. At the time of his incarceration ho was classed as mentally deranged, while having a long record of de linquency. The superintendent fur ther stater that the patient was in the habit of stealing which was viewed as a result of mental disor ders. The patient escaped from this in stitution Jan. 19, 1935. The letter concluded with “since his escape we have had no further information regarding his whereabouts nor his behavior.” It was further revealed that the attorneys representing the soldiers: Ward T. Jones, John R. Hunter and Isaac Wahlder, appointed by the court, filed notices of appeals the day the sentence was made Aug. 10. According to information from reli able sources, all were instructed by the judge that if no other counsel •were employed in the meantime, it would be their duty to prepare the necessary bills of exception and such briefs and arguments as were necessary to be filed in the appell ate court. To date, however, it is not known whether or not the lawryers have, prepared the necessary papers. Evi dence indicates that the appellate court has yet to receive them. The convicted soldiers have been removed to the federal jail in New Orleans for safe keeping. TWO COOKS HURT AS STREAM LINER IS DERAILED Clinton. Ind.. Sept. 7 (ANP) Sev erely hurt, with first degree burns. Ames Weeks and Marshall White, cooks aboard the Dixie Flagler, 16 coach Chicago and Eastern Illinois streamliner, are being treated at Vermillion County hospital, follow ing derailment of the train a short distance of this city. Several hundred yards of track were ripped up as a result of the ac cident, and the engineer, J. P. Mea gher, was taken to the hospital, but was released after an examination. There were no other serious casual ties. ANTI-POLL TAX BILL NEEDS 18 SIGNATURES Washington. Sept. 11 (ANP) f:t*l! lacking are 18 signatures necessary to bring the Geyer anti-poll tax bill out of committee, where it has 1 tin for more than a year. It is the plan of the committee sponsoring the bill to try to secure the necess ary signatures when members of congress begin arriving in town from their brief vacations. Strong efforts will be made t0 have the bill bought out of committee at all early date. On the Alert In the Pacific An enemy raid On America’s great military base at Pearl Harbor will encounter formidable opposition from a crack Army anti-aircraft regiment of Negro troops. Induct ed as a National Guard unit, the regiment is commanded by Colonel Chauncey M. Hooper, Negro offic er and attorney from New York City Many of the soldiers of Colonel Hooper’s unit are from Harlem. Be cause of their far-flung assignment they have dubbed themselves the “Pineapple Army.” Other units in the Islands attest that the "Pineap ple Army” has marksmen as eagle eyed as Kit Carson. One officer recently asked them to “gradually” shoot the edges off the sleeve targets towed across the sky by airplanes, rather than to wreck the targets at once with a volley of direct bursts. Colonel Hooper’s troops have in stalled their guns and other equip i ment and are ready for an eventual --—rr: ity. Their unit has been coordinat ed with other Army anti-aircraft outfits in the area. Maneuvers have demonstrated that synchronization J among the various units is highly developed. Many of the men, includ ing Colonel Hooper, are veterans of the first World War. The picture accompanying this story, among the first of Negro troops to arrive from overseas, shows Colonel Hooper and some of his fellow officers: (left to right) 10° FOR BEER 10c To Drink it? WHERE IS DEMOCRACY? Where is Democracy? What are our boys fighting for? Is it poss ible that we must fight to preserve Democracy for America and then be denied the privileges of that De mocracy everyday. A few days a go I happened to meet a friend ct mine at 13th and Dodge Sts. as we both were somewhat employed in similar positions, we began talking about our work. It was very warm and we felt the need of a beverage My friend suggested we step into a tavern at 13th and Dodge Sts known as the Dodge Bar In the Dodge Ho tel. We ordered a couple of bottles of beer. The owner or bartender who served us stated that it would cost us 10c a bottle and 10c to drink it....a total of 20c. We noticed other customers therein at that time were charged only 10c. We refused to pay the requested prices and due to the fact that the bar tender had opened the beer, our re fusal of course brought ebout a dis pute. We ask in all fairness. Is this the Democracy we are about to be inducted into the army to fight for? Is is fair to offer your life blood to protect these kind of business plac es? Would this not make your blood boil to know that you are standing ready to forsake your loved ones and enter into the army in combat service with all hopes of winning victory even at a sacrifice of our own lives, knowing deep down in o'ur hearts that the Democracy we are fighting for does not exist even now for us at home. Now Mr. Editor of the OMAHA GUIDE, I am asking you what is going to be done about these condi tions? Is there any hope for a real Democracy for all American citiz ens? Ted Woods, 2634 Parker St., Ed Snyder, 2121 Lake St. Lieutenant Oren W. Riley, Dental Corps, New York City; Captain Scott S. McKnight, Medical Corps, Charlotte, North Carolina; Major Edward I. Marshall, CAC., New York City: Lieutenant Otho C. Van Exel, CAC, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Lieut enant Colonel Harry B. Reubel, CAC New York; Lieutenant Colonel Wil mer F. Lucas, CAC, Washington, D. C.; and Major Robert E. Carter, Medical Department, New York. Colonel Hooper is seated at the desk Wilberforce Name 5 New Professors Wilberforce, Sept. 8 (ANP) Presi dent Charles H. Wesley of Wilber force university announced last week the appointment of five new members to the faculty’ and the ad ministrative staff for the 87th aca demic year which will open Sept. 14 with a meeting of the faculty. Fresh men week will be held Sept. 15-19 and registratioh will be Sept. 21 and 22, with classes beginning Sept. 22. The last day of registration for cred it is Sept. 28. Several faculty members have gone into the armed forces and are assisting wit hthe war effort. The new members of the faculty include Miss Lucile Baker, M. A., Smith col WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPT 10— f) (ANP)—Secretary of 'War Stimson in his regular press conference Thursday morning, stressed the im portance and the need of women in war effort to release men of milit ary age for active service. “If you want to see how far this can be done in an English speaking coun try,” Mr. Stimson said, “all you have to do is visit England. Women are even in combatant units there”. To date, some 300,000 women are employed in various capacities by the war department and according to estimates, there will be a like number employed releasing as many men for military service. However, in the ordnance corps, signal corps and aviation corps, there is need for enlisted men with mechanical skills. Figures on this indicate 90,000 men needed in these three branches of the service- To that end, a special enlistment period has been set aside, ending Oct. 1?. in which men qualified ar^ sought for these branches. However, the enlistment period will not extend beyond that date, for the secretary says by that time the army training schools will be turning out a suf ficient number of men to take care of all needs. But men will not be permitted to enlist until they have cleared thru their own local selective service boards, which will determine whe ther or not the men are to be re tained in private industry. Another interesting item was re vealed by the secretary who said that in the first nine month period beginning Dec. 7, trop movements by rail totaled approximately 6,500,. 000 as opposed to 1,916,417 for the first nine months of the last war. Up to now, the army has employed more than the total number of Pull man and tourist cars used during the entire last war. To date, no movement of troops as a unit has taken place in box cars or freight equipment. The American soldier has moved an average of three times between induction and embarkation for over seas in 1917-18. Today, he averages six moves before leaving the coun try. One of the officers attending the conference was Lt. Burgess Mere dith, favorite stage and screen act or, whose outspoken attitude on the Negro question has often brought favorable emment from his friends. lege, who will teach in the depart ment of elementary teacher educa tion;'Herman L. Taylor, M. A., Ohio State university, in the department Of commerce; Mrs. Alice Gross Mills B. S., University of Cincinnati, de partment of home economics; Miss Jamye H. Coleman, M. A. Fisk uni versity, department Of English; Miss Anne Jordan, M. A., Ohio State, de partment of romance languages. A new commanding officer, Col. L. L. Hamilton, has been appointed for the ROTC unit. Col. Hamilton was recently in charge of troops on transport service and has seen ser vice in many parts of the world. His plans call for expansion and de velopment of the military service of Wilberforce to the nation. The army enlisted reSrve corps is being rapidly filled with students who are eager to prepare thejns ji ves as candidates for officer mater ial. x marge registration is expected for the next year. During the past! year M'ilberforce drew its student body from 36 states and six foreign, countries, and in its service had a national aspect both through its students and alumni. An intensive program is being launched through the alumni office to reach, contact and interest the alumni. Many of them are expected to return to the University for homecoming which occurs Oct. 31. first navy recruits COMPLETE BASIC TRAINING "Washington, Sept. 10 (AXP) The navy announced here last week that 222 Negro recruits, the first assign ed to Camp Robert Smalls at Great Lakes, 111., had completed their bas CHARGES S. C. LAND LORD WITH PEON AGE TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. Sept. 10 (ANP)—David Williams, 47 year old former sharecroper, charg ed with violating a verba] agree ment with his South Carolina land lord, Cleo Young, to “render person al service” to him from Dec. 1, 1941 to Dec. 1, 1942, will be given a per sonal hearing here, it was announc ed last week by Gov. Charles Edis on. Gov. R. M. Jefferies of South Car olina had sought Williams’ return after Young, Timmonsville plantu tion owner, had charged his forme’ sharecropper with breach of trust and alleged that Williams abandon ed his crops after receiving severs' hundred dollars in advances. The extradition, to which Edison originally consented, was halted by habeas corpus proceedings demand-1 ed by the National Federation for Constitutional Lierties and other or ganizations, declare Williams a vie. with violation of the anti-peonage tim of peonage, and charged Young law. This law, which holds a Geor gia contract labor law unconstitu tional, declares that “coerced labor (Continued on page '£ > WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED YOUNG MAN— Lonnie Morrow Killed By Soldier SEEFRAMEUP IN SLAYING OF WHITE ARMY OFFICER Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 9 (ANP) Following the recent arraignment of Margaret Herlihy, white, daugh ter Of Lt. Col. Edward G. Herlihy pf Fort Huachuca, on a murder charge for the shooting of her fi ance, Capt. David Carr, 27. during a reported lovers’ quarrel, several in teresting angles have developed. The girl’a father. Col. Herlihy, re portedly told a press representative that Carr had threatened to kill his daughter and to leave her body on the Fort Huachuca reservation <40 miles from here), under circumstanc es that would make it appear she had been slain by one of the Negro soldiers stationed at Fort Huachuca. In the fatal shooting of Carr, the girl said she had acted in self de fense. Capt. Carr and Miss Herlihy were engaged to be married on Sept. 15, and both had been previously mar ried. The shooting occurred after the couple had returned from a vis it to Agua Prieta, Senora, just a cross the border from Douglas. Af ter arrival at the home where Mias Herlihy resided with her mother Carr was fatally wounded by sev eral shots from a pistol. The ef forts of army surgeons to save bis life were futile. NAACP PRESENTS SWORN STATEM’NTS OF VOTE DENIAL TO JUSTICE DEPT. Washington, D. C.More than 20 sworn statements made by Ne groes who, even though they had paid their poll tax to vote in prim ary elections in the South, were re fused permission to do so, have been personally presented to the United States Department of Justice this week by Thurgood Marshall, spec ial counsel, on behalf of the NAACP The affidavits come from Negroes in Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, an:l South Carolina. The Justice Department at the same time was requested to insti tute criminal prosecution under the U. S. Civil Rights statute on the ground that election officials who refused qualified Negroes the right to vote, violated this statute. Dallas and Galveston, Texas, are most fully represented with 13 af fidavits coming from Galveston, six from Dallas. Several were also made from Houston, Texas, Mobile Ala., Little Rock, Ark., and several Places in South Carolina. This marks another step in the Association’s year-long fight a gainst the Democratic “white pri mary” which bars Negroes from choosing the men who will repres ent them in the Government. ic training, and that 102 of the men had been assigned to advanced train ing courses at Hampton institute and the Great Lakes Naval Train ing station. The camp is now receiving new recruits, and each month a group of the men completing the course will be assigned to further training to fit them as specialists. The first advanced classes at Hampton and Great Lakes will start Sept. 13. 1 Lonnie Morrow a well known ar J( highly respected young man of this city was killed and a visiting sold ier was critically injured in a brief, furous pocketknife due] on the side Of the clay bank On 30th street Wed nesday morning. Police found Lonnie, age 27 of 2042 North 21st dead of numerous knife wounds near Blondo and 33th streets. Nearby lay John Harvey Bowen, 25, a soldier stationed at Camp Everett, Mass., staying at 3029 Burdette street. Bowen had suffered severe cuts on the tody, neck and face. Officers took him to the hospital and placed him un der guard. Three motorists, told police they were motoring south on 30th street near Burdette when a man identir ing board of their car and shouted led as Morow Jumped on the runn "Step on it a man’s trying to get a way.” About 150 feet south of Blondo, the four saw a man trying to climb a clay bank. Morrow jumped from the car and ran to the bank. The fight resulted. When police arriv ed Morrow lay dead and Bowen badly hurt. Police believe the fight was over Morrow's wife, aMrgaret, 26, of 2S11 Ohio Street, who they said recently filed a divorce suit. The body of Lonnie Morryw was i t&ken to the Thomas Funeral Home. AFRICAN ORTHODOX CHURrH HOLDS 2 ..ST GENERAL SYNOD IN KROOK1 YN Brooklyn, Sept. 10 (ANP) A-i esti mated after.dance of more than '.'to Persons, including the house of bis hops, dignitaries, priests, delegates and visitots. took part in th - 2.s,t general synod of the African OrtLo d ix chulch, of New York and M.sv achusetts, which last Monday con cluded its s-x-day session at Christ Cr.urch rr.ssion, of which the Rev. Father Getrpe Ford is rector. The f.ddrr ss of welcome was de livered by Judge Edwards Rich:;>-is Preside r.t New York Savings b.Itk, and Judge Faige of special sessions court represented Mayor Florc-ila LaGuardia. Officers cf the synod: The MoV Rev. R. A. Valentine, archbishop and primate, president; the Rt. Rev F. A. Toole, bishop of Manhattan, vice president; the Very Rev. J. B TLerne. secretary; Ran Mitchell treasurer: the Rt. Rev. Cyril O. Sheppard, chancellor, and the R»v Fr. George Ford, statistician. DEPENDENTS’ PAYMENTS TO MANY ‘WAVES’ WILL CAUSE HEADACHE ■Washington, Sept. 10 (AXP) Ther is going to be confusion soon wher army checks start coming back to sldiers dependents if some of the corner talk around here is to be tak en seriously, and it is being serious ly cons;dertd- in some sectors. For instance, there is the matte:1 of many men being drafted into the service, legally married but not working at it, yet living with a par amour who to all intents and pur poses is his wife. Who gets tor billing and who is entitled to the check th« government will send a dependent? The soldier may give his common in law wife’s name, yet the legal wife, discovering where her spouse is, may make a claim for her share. This is true with many whites as well as Xegro soldiers, and is going to be one grand headache for the war department to adjust. BETWEEN THE LINES (BY DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK FOR ANP) ■* * * ‘ A WAR DIAGNOSIS Quite as important as wars them selves is a clear understanding of their causes. For 'lo these many centuries nations have fought for economic advantage and it is safe to say that by far the greater num ber of wars and the greater wars have been rooted in some economio In other words, the wars of the motive past have been bread wars _. .wars of nations fighting for bread. Then,4 bread wars have wrecked empire* and civilizations and have over thrown monarchs of highty domain. Although our religionists and ideal ists have dreamed of a time when wars among men would cease, such happy time seems far removed in some ethereal distance too deep for human ken. For all we know wars will be upon mankind for many een turies yet to come for the simple reason only a change of heart will bring an and to war and humans are not in the habit of changing their heart until all other measures have failed, and these are multitud (Continued on page 3) Mrs. Roosevelt Scotches Rumors of ‘Eleanor Clubs' Washington, Sept. 10 (ANP) Dixies attempt to smear Mrs. Roosevelt because of her appearance at tha AME meeting in North Carolina came a cropper whe nthe rumor bred “Eleanor Clubs”, reported to have been organized throughout the south by housemaids and domestics were reported as non-existent. Declaring the clubs had as their slogan, “Not a Maid in the Kitchen by Christmas,” the purpose of the clubs was to secure employment for Negro women in defense plants, ft is reported. Mrs. Roosevelt in a statement to the press declared that an investi gation proved there was no basis for the rumored clubs, and ehat she bad been unable to obtain a list, record br name of anyone enrolled in the nythical clubs, which bear her name ■vithout her permission. Because of the low pay scale for lomestics in the south, Mrs. Roose velt said she thought domestics were leaving private employment a group of whites in the town. X \ > HERE ARE DEMOCRACY’S SINEWS America’s workers are democracy's strength and in the nation trade un. ion members are working around the clock to turn out more planes, more tanks, more guns and mure ships for democracy’s defnse. The victory of free labor over slave la bor throughout the world depends on the brains and brawn of Amer icans such as the skilled worker shown above. An expert "plate bender” at the Norfolk Navy Yard, he shapes the steel plates for tha sidings of war ships that will soon be prowling the sea lanes around Germany and Jaoan and escorting United Nations’ transports bearing lend-lease material to Britain, China and Russia.