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~Epi£?.^m£ST ffSlghSi pSifjfl. tS$“- N,brasl“ Saturday, Dec. 57^942 Our 15th Year, No. 43 City Edition. 5c Copy
“Remember Pearl harborf . . IA/ORK ■ FIGHT SACRIFICE
Buying P ower of Negroes Is Ten -billion Dollars
NEGRO RACE
BRAND CONSCIOUS
The buying power of the N«ro
population of this country amounts
to J7.0SO.O0O.OOO to JIO.OOO.OOO -
OOO annually, it was reported at a
panel discussion on the Negro mar
ket sponsored by the American Mar
keting Association at the Hotel Com
modore. The marketing mer. were
told that a new racial loyalty is de
veloping steadily among the Negro
people which therefore makes it
advisable for manufacturers to em
ploy Negro salesmen when seeking
to tap the Negro market.
Among the other facts about the
Negro market brought out in the
course of the discussion were these
Negroes are very brand conscious:
68 per cent in the New York mar
ket listen to the radio; total circu
lation of the 400 Negro papers a
mounts to about 2,500,000: Negro
papers give more detailed and com
prehensive merchandising assist
ance to manufacturers than do oth
er papers: 17 percent of the nation's
drug store business is done with
Negroes despite the tact that they
account for only 10 percent of the
population. 10-cent size packages are
very important ip drug stores with
some distributors} repacking expen
sive cosmetic lines for example, in
these sizes for the Negro trade.
The speakers were David J. Sul
livan. former advertising manager.
New York Amsterdam Star News:
Mrs. Sullivan: William G. Black.
Sales manager. Interstate United
Newspapers: Joseph Christian. ior
mer advertising manger. The Peo
— pl'-‘ ' -nrp; Joseph Woeton. inter
state United Newspapers, and Hazel
Sharper
WILBERFORCE ACCELERATES
ITS EDI CATIONAL PROGRAM
Wijberforce, Ohio:—As a part of
the general program to help the
government in its all-out war ef
forts. the members of the Wilber
force University faculty voted un
animously to return to the Quarter
System beginning with the next ac
ademic year. The special commit
tee recommending this change also
urged the administration to instit
ute an accelerated program of stud
ies by introducing a full quarter of
summer school- This would divide
the year into four quarters and en
able a. student to graduate in three
years.
THE MOST DISGRACEFUL SPECT
ACLE OF DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
Says A. Philip Randolph
. ......... .in mr hthf "•iminnur" ;Tr'iiim.mminmniriii n imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiMi
TO RENEW FIGHT FOR
PASSAGE OF ANTI
POLL TAX BILL
BILL TO BE REINTRODUCED
TO 7STH CONGRESS TN JAN
■Washington, D. C, — Pec'ciring
that the NAACP is "not in the least
deterred" by the temporal set liacli
experienced in the passage of anti
poll tax legislation which occurred
when a bourbon senate majority
killed the bill on Noremb»r 23, Wal
ter white, executive secretary of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People an
nounced this week in a statement to
the press that the NAACP, work
ing in cooperation with ether agenc
ies. will renew the poll taa fight
with the very first day of t^e 78th
Congress convening on January 3,
1943.
Stating that it is the conviction
of the NAACP that ‘‘the repetition
of filibusters which tie up the coun
try's business during war time will
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Returned to Leadership
CHARLES F. DAVIS. Exalted
Ruler of the Colored Elks of Omaha
who Wednesday nig’ht. was returned
to office at an election of officer^.
Washington. D .C.-A. Philip Ran
dolph. national director of the
March-on- Washington Movement
and international president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por
ters. issued this statement on the
victory of the poll tax filibuster in
the Senate:
“The most disgraceful spectacle
of democracy in action witnessed in
America in contemporay times was
the bi-partisan conspiracy of Repub
-licans and Democrats to defeat the
anti-poll tax bill. A small band of
willful Southern politicians seized
the reigns of democratic procedure
tn the Senate and blackjacked this
entire institution into abject sub
mission to its present policy Tt
served definitely to dis-fllusion the
Negro masses. North. South, East
and West with respect to the Rep
ublican Party constituting the ship
for their salvation, or the Demo
cratic Party representing any hope
whatsoever.
‘‘It also served to make* Negroes
completely aware of the fact that
the New Deal, even under Presi
dent Roosevelt’s leadership, is abso
lutely bankrupt so far as providing
any fundamental answer to the
problem of the Negro masses is con
cerned. In the highways and the
byways, in the factories and on the
farms, on the railroads, and the
steamships, in the hotels and lom
estic kitchens, the Negro will have
one thought and that is that “The
President let us down at a crucial
hour in our history.”
“The final speech of Senator Bark
ley on the poll tax sounded passion
ate- However his willingness to
make the deal indicates that he
was meticulously following the cue
of the President in his speeches
last Tuesday in which he said.
while long range social and econo
mic problems are by no means for
gotten. they are a little like books
which for the moment we have laid
aside in order that we might get
out the old atlas to study the geo
'Cont-nued on page 25P4)
NEGROES GET SQUARE DEAL IN THE ARMED SERVICES
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COLiUri £S£.*-Ut£,.ttC> OI the >s€*gro reg meat at hoi
Huachuca, Ariz :na, prepare to march in review. The
men, left to right, are: 1st Class Pvt Robert Rose
Staff Sgt Peter Hardly Jr., Sgt Isaac McWane and
Pvt Robert Levis.
Advancement Based
Solely on Ability
'This is the fourth of a series of
articles or the important part be
ing p1ay=d by the .Negro in the na
tion's war effort in the factories
and in the Armies of the United
^ates. Taken from the Chicasr
Sun.)
BY FOWLER B. HARPER
Chairman Joint Army and N'avy
Committee on Welfare and Re
creation. and Deputy Chairman
T7ar Manpower Commission.
“I've rot the best Uncle in the
3N THE MARCH are Negro troops from the Re
placement Center of Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Ya.
They are seen as they parade past the Commerce
Building in Washington, D, C, The occasion was
Memorial Day. —
whole world Yes. sir' He's my
Uncle Sam".
Wg were visiting the Negro rec
reation center at Fort Benning. (Ja.
on our recent nation-wide Joint
Committee survey tour of Army
and Navy posts
, A group of Negro soldiers were
conversing—about the war in gen
eral the Army in particular. Grad
ually the talk swung around to
their own specific part in the war
The boy who spoke—a lad in his
middle twenties—had been in the
Army but a few weeks. Yet he
had been a part of the forces long
enough to find out that his ‘J"ncle
Sam" was giving him a square deal,
was sincerely interested in his wel
fare. was going to see to it that he
had all the advantages available to
white soldiers.
Negroes are in every branch of
the service today. They are in the
Air Corps, the Cavalry. Infantry,
Corps of Engineers, Field Artillery.
Signal Corps. Chemical Warfare
Service. Medical. Ordnance. Milit
ary Police. Finance. Quartermaster
Corps. They are bound only by
personal limitations of ability and
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I To Serve Again
By Hama of Punuc Halation*.
U S W«r Dept.. Wufa.. D. C.
OSCAR C. FISHER, Greensboro,
S. C., s former commanding of
ficer of Post 133, American Legion,
swarded the Croix de Guerre with
Palm, is back in tha Army “to do
all I can to prevent sabotage and
stop the insidious propaganda
aimed at my people by the Axis
leaders.’
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ELKS TG HOLD ANNUAL
CHARITY BALL DEC. 7TH
The Elks Annual Charity Ball,
will be held Monday. December 7,
1942 at the Elks hall.
San Diego Plant
i Upgrades Skilled
Negro Workers
.Vin Diego Calif . .In : n TUcr
!'ew .'ill Roy Wilkin n, '-sis-axt
er :«c s .' ary of tile XA A T
J. H. Waterbary, personnel manag
er of Consolidated Aircraft here
which in the employment of Xegr>
es still lags behind the Douglas and
I Lockheed plants stated this week
' that Xegro workers at Consolidate !
are being upgraded slowly and that
some machinists were being employ
ed but were being treated as indiv
idual cases.
Waterbury admitted that ;,:s
plant has been ‘ cautious” and slow
in employing Xegroes in skilled
work but stated that the process of
upgrading workers already was
functioning smoothly. The Consol
idated plant now employs about 150
N'egro women.
FIGHT BIRMINGHAM BAN ON
DEFENSE TRAINEES
Birmingham. Ala..—Reports that
Alabama Training Authorities have
closed war courses to Negroes
earned this week protests from the
local branch and the National Of
fice of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple. The move was reported to
George M. Johnson at the Presid
ent's Committee on Fair Employ
ment Practice who acknowledged |
an awareness of the seriousness of
the situation and stated that im
mediate action would be taken to
correct it.
The Birmingham NAACP Branch
further urged that the appropriate
officials within the War Manpower
Commission give their consideration
to the matter.
jHKi'OO S>0'>6 >CHj U1 V SgQOOOOOfr.
I EDITORIAL
!0F THE WEEK
(from the Des Moines Register.
November 14)
RACE FACTS. NOT FICTIONS
Many of us have smiled over the
ahsumption of some persons in for
eign countries that w-e all live in
multi-roomed mansions and drive, 16
cylinder cars because that is What
Americans seem to do in the motion
pictures we send them.
Yet a good many white Americans
have absorbed just as crazy slants
about the Negro. said Walter
White, executive secretary of the
NaaCP during his recent visit here
White told of a Wisconsin wom
an who asserted she didn't liky Ne
groes.” She assured White that
he was an exception, and it then de
veloped that she knew none of the
few Negroes in her town. But sail
she knew she din t like Negroes be
cause they “are lazy and shiftless.”
She knew this, she added, be-a use
she had seen them in the movies'
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"WE'LL REMEMBER—AND YOU WON'T BE ALLOWED TO FORGET!!
ONE YEAR AT WAR
This year December 7th is a significant date—the anniversary of the black
day when the war lords of Japan cast the die for international treachery and
the United States was precipitated from neutrality into war.
Throughout the nation, and far beyond our srorer wherever our fighting
forces may be, the people of the United States will mark this day. Bitterness
|at the memory of the treacherous character of the attack will exist, of course,
|but [t seems certain that the true temper of the day will be akin to the solemn
temper of the first Thanksgiving Day.
There are striking parallels between the two days,
j_That first Thanksgiving, people thanked God they wTere alive and had
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ENRAGED SOLDIERS
ROUT ANTI NEGRO
CAFE OWNER
( Ogden. Utan... .When confronted
by a refusal of a cafe proprietor
this week to serve them because of
their race it is alleged that a group
of N'e^ro soldiers stationed here re
taliated by chasing the proprietor
across the street and into the shel
ter of an undertaking establishment
■—-—
Later it was reported that the col
onel of the regiment told the town
auhorities that all public places
here would have to serve Negroes
in uniform. This is now being done
but it is rumored that Negro serv
ice men are being overcharged "by
white establishments.
TWO TEXANS INDICTED
ONPEONAGECHARGE
ELKS BURN
MORTGAGE
In a very eolorful manner, befit- 1
ting them, along with an enjoyable
well planned program, presided over
by C. C. Galloway, Editor of the
Omaha Guide. Hie Colored Flkff ib.
P.O-E. of W burned the mortgage
on their home building at 2420 Lake
St.. Monday evening. 0r shall we
say the actually burning took place
in the early hours of Tuesday morn
ing. December 1. 1942.
It was a gala occasion, not only j
for the Elks, but for the various '
organizations, choir, soloists and
friends, who gathered to witness the
ceremony.
J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted
Ruler of the Elks, highlighted the
evening as honorary speaker ani
burner of the mortgage.
CHAMPION TYPIST GIVES
I NCITE SAM HIS MACHINES
Another world's champion went
to bat for the Army and the Xavy
this week.
Cortez W. Peters, holder of sev
eral world s records in typewriting
and present world's champion port
able typist, has turned over ten of
his latest model standard size type
writers to the Government to assist
the current drive for 600.000 mach
ines for the Army and Navy.
The machines, taken from three
Negro business schools operated by
Mr. Peters in Washington. D. C..
Baltimore. Md_. and Chicago. TP
were purchased by the Government
through the Washington office of
the Royal Typewriter Co.
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I The Department of Justice ann
ounced this week that pleas of not
guilty were entered by Aits, sko
tart zj k and his daughter, Susie, of
Bos ville, Texas. Mond if when
w we arraigned at Co>n.:s Christie
Texas, on charges of violating thr
- edciai anti-peonage statutes.
Vne Skrobarczyks xer. indi^td
bl a Cederal Grand Ju-v at ijirelo,
Texas, on November 9, 1942. on
charges of holding a Negro. Alfred
Irving, in a condition of peonage
and slavery for a period of four
years to work out a pretended debt.
According to the indictment, the
Skrobarczyks paid Irving *4.65 mon
thly in addition to *12.50 for food
and clothing during the four year
period.
At the time of defendants’ arrest
Irv mg- was found in a badly iirujg. *
nourished condition, bleeding at the
mouth, and with his body, face ana
arms covered with fresh cuts as
well as old scars. He testified that
on various ocasions he had been
beaten with a “whip, rope, chain,
and plank." Twice when he ran a
way from the Skrobarczyks farm,
Irving claimed, he was returned by
the defendants to involuntary serv
itude
The Skrobarczyks were indicted
under Section 443 and 444. Title is,
IT. S. Code, both of which carry a
maximum penalty of 5 years im
prisonment. or a *5000 fine, or both.
The Grand Jury investigation, re
quested by Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Wendell Berge, in charge of
the Criminal Division, following the
return of a no-bill by a State giani
Jury, was directed by V. S. Attor
ney Douglas McGregor.
A step to eliminate one cause of
•udi attitudes was made during the
summer by White and Wend oil Wil
lie. in conference with picture pro
ducers in Hollywood.
All the producers, recording to
Wnite. pledged to portray Negroes
■ ■ mu i in i mum 11 mm ii ii mi mini
ic the future not merely a* comic?
hot a? normal human ceings
-'•a' urally, the screen version
the Negro is not going to revolut
:onize overnight- But several pic
tures Li ve already be»n it* ye.1.
"survived the cataclysmic dangers of
the months past. They took stock
of the issues for which they had
fought and suffered, of what they
had and of what they had to do.
They looked ahead to a hard win
ter and knew things would be
worse before they would be better.
But they knew they were right,
that what they fought for was
worth the hardships and sacrifices
involved, and they faced the future
with a calm trust in God and a grim
determination to do what had to be
The same situation exists today.
And unmistakably there are indic
ations that our people feel tha
same high-minded resolve; to work,
to sacrifice to fight for the right .
. .for their freedom' An army of
free men and women on the march,
they look to their leaders for guid
ance'
AN ANNIVERSARY WITH
A PURPOSE
For those who mold public opin
i ion and give voice to the temper or
| the people, this situation presents a
great opportunity-an oPpOrtUn
| tty to emphasize the deep signific
ance of December 7, 1342 .rather
than any smaller, more melodramat
ic concept of vindicative revenege
Rather than merely challenging
the people of the United states to
"Remember Pearl Harbor”, let the
theme be—
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR..
WORK—FIGHT—SACRIFICE!
This keeps December 7th what
it logically should oe_a day for
every American to ask himself
v.hat a year of war has. meant,
what he is fighting for, what he has
to face and how he can face ani
must face it. A day when he hon
ors the heroic sacrifice of those who
have died and prepa. rs himself to
ijin vith his 'ellow citVze is in i . ic
ing c-.mmon hardships—in terms ot
<vork, sc orifice and f'ynr.
A l WO l,AY OBSEKl'AM ,1
* - t *. :t that the uvve»vy of
I’*-rl ij-nhor falls On a Monday
this :ea- creates the c-rpertunity
for a two-day observance, embrac
ing both Sunday and Monday. The
inclusion of Sunday is doubly fort
unate both because the original at
tack fell on a Sunday and because
the tone and religious ceremoni. s
of the Sabbath are in keeping with
the spirit of re-dedication to a high,
purpose which will characterize
this anniversary.
It would be fitting that the Sun
day observance should be in the
nature (1) of a memorial to thcs
who died at Pearl Harbor and who
have died in the service of their
, country since; (2) of a solemn thanks
giving that our nation has survived
' a critical year and faces the future
with growing strength and confid
ence; (3) of a rededicatjOn 0f all our
resources to the spiritual values
which are at stake in this war.
Monday would sound the rallying
call— WORK— FIGHT— SACRI
FICE. It wou'd find an aroused
and determined nation turning to
its war duties on the anniversu'-y
of the betrayal of its conception of
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