t LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Er Xetln,8l“ "Saturday, Feb. 13^943 Ourl6th Year, NoTcity Edition. 5c Copy ^SETTYSBU RGP^E5TERM!^JMlWSM^*TQpAY^^ imiii'im . . )iiii«n*i«iiiiaimimatimaiiiamitiiiimainiuifimiimiiamaimnimiimmiiimiiail! l■l■l■llllal■lBaalllllllll■ ..I.............. ...-................. Iiumis HCTRTf for Your Valentine... Give A WAR BOND ..$3 & up fiiiiiiiiiu limit mi mu niiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiimiimiimimmiimii ill mimiiiiimiiiimmmimiiiiiimiimmmmiiiHi ill HOLD RITES FOR DR. PENN NOTED CME. ECCLESIASTIC Monroe La.. Feb. 11 (ANP) Fun eral services were conducted from the CME. church last week for tha late Rev. I. Garland Penn, its pas tor for more than five years. Rev iiiimiiiMiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiim .MRS. HIRIAM R. GREENFIELD TO W RITE FOR THE GUIDE Beginning with this we* k the Omaha Guide has secured the serv ices of Mrs. H. R. Greenfield who has a wide experience in journal ism ;.nd travel, to write short art icles of her own choosing for this paper. Penn died at Hot Springs. Ark., on ; January 23 after an illness of sev eral months. Dr. F. L. Lewis, a general offic er of the CME church, officiating , at the rites. Resolutions from church leaders in Jackson. Miss.. Memphis and the West Tennessee conferences were rad by the Revs. tV. A. Johnson, former pastor of the CME church here, and Arthur Womack, who received Dr. Penn into the CME church in Chicago a deade ago. Ministers, educators and promin ! aid war bond drive Todd Duncan and Etta Moten, stars of “Porgy and Bess," are making per sonal appearances in all sections of the country doing their bit for the war effort b> cooperating with the Treasury Department in promoting the sale of War Bonds and Stamps. ' “ WSS 729B J C S 7V*a",r» D*pt. "PORGY AND BESS" IN K. C. KANSAS CITY. Ho.. Feb. 11 - (ANP)—“Porg-y and Bess”, the Ger shwin musical starring Todd Dun can and Etta Moten opened in* the Municipal auditorium theatre here Wednesday coming via Wichita, Kansas, from St. Louis where for two weeks the show played to packed houses. Next week after a Sunday stop at Des Moines the Play opens in Minneapolis. Minn., then to St- Paul with a week in M-lwaukee. Wia., scheduled for Feb. 15. Critics have been uniformly en thusiastic in praise of the perfor mance of the cast. In many in stances cities have been waiting five years to see the play. Citiz ens in the various centers have been lavish in their hospitality. Here on opening night the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority led the van of entertainments by giving a tea in honor of Soror Moten and the entire cast, to which many citiz ens of the community were invit ed. I ent citizens of both the white and Negro races were present in the auditorium to pay tribute to the Christian service Dr. Penn gave his community. The chairman of the community chest declared that “for five years during Dr. Penn’s pastorate in Monroe, his humanitarian acts, philanthropic spirit, untiring ser vice and ability to bring about a better spirit and cooperation be tween all races makes him worthy of the name, citizen Number one regardless of color.’’ Rev. Penn was the son of the prominent CME church layman, late Dr. I. Garland Penn Sr., a He was educated at Claflin univ ersity and Gammon Theological seminary. Later the minister took courses at Boston university. During World War 1, Dr. Penn served as an army chaplain. Later he held charges at Atlanta and Washington. He also pastored at ; the R. E. Jones temple in Louis j vDle and churches at Chicago. Several years ago Dr. Penn trans ferred from the Methodist-Epis^o 1 pal church to CME affiliation anc | five years ago was assigned to the ! church here where he served un j til the time of his deatb. AMA MAKE BOLD MOVE Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll USE NEGRO TROOPS FOR SNOW REMOVAL NAACP PROTESTS New York ,N. Y... Why were Ne gro troops brought sixty miies from Fort Lewis to clean snow in downtown Seattle- Washington, while none of the white soldiers at nearby Fort Lawton was detail ed for this work, the NAACP this week asked Secretary of War Stimson. Voicing the outrage of Negro citizens throughout the country at the exclusive use of Negro soldiers for snow cleaning. Roy Wilkins. NAACP Assistant executive sec retary. asked in a letter to Stim son: “Is it the purpose of the War Department to use Negro troOi>9 drawing a pay of $50 a month to relieve municipalities of the legit imate expenses for carryting on the regular services tp the popu lation of these cities? These men could not protest. They are in the Army and had to obey orders" Wilkins pointed out to StimSon a news story in the Washington. D .C. Times Herald of January 51. 1943, under the heading, “Army Won’t Clear Snow from District” in which it is stated: “William A. Xanten was informed that a second appeal for assistance from the Army in cleaning up the slush ....was futile. The Army, it was said, did not wish to establish a precedent by use of troops in the situation." The story appeared four days after Negro troops had exchanged their guns for shovels in Seattle. "This Association,” said Wilk ins. "and colored people genen.il> are properly outraged that only their troops should have been se; ected for this duty. The respect for the Negro soldier is not en hanced in the minds of his fellow white Americans by the fact that commanding generals select him for menial tasks in the downtown section of a great American city. The morale of Negro civilians and their enthusiasm for the war ef fort are not enhanced by the know ledge that the War Department is making such use of the men who are supposed to be fighting for de mocracy.” Illlllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllll Surviving are his widow, a da-i gter. a senior at Atlanta univers ity: five sisters and an aunt. Start Campaign Against Swingin’ the Spirituals HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 1. (ANP> — Because she is adept at transferr ing her thoughts to the printed page- Nadine Cole, clever young dancer and wife of Nat Cole, lead er of the famous King Cole trio, is preparing a series of articles meant to start a drive against swinging the spirituals. Shocked by the growing tendency by ar rangers and composers in rewrit ing some of the race's sweetest [spirituals into dance tunes, she 'hopes to arouse radio listeners and dance fans into greater respect for these hymns. Mrs. Cole declares that although her husband submitted once to Urgings to feature one of the swing spirituals, he too is adverse to its disrespect and has not erred since. In fact when on one occas ion a Jewish patron at the cafe where he plays insisted on one he , asked him. “Now how would you like to hear yo'ur revered. ‘Eli, Eli desecrated to swing music?" ► CONGREGATIONAL LEADER ASSAYS NEW AM A PLAN CHICAGO. Feb. 12 (AXP) —"he American Missionary association announcement that it will special ize in the field of race relations to the extent of keeping static or reducing its present school policy and diverting its vast funds into the rather nebulous field of race relations poses a most insistent question to those interested in the development and advancement of the American Negro. The charac ter as stated by the executive com mittee is: “That the American Missionary division concentrate its attention on the field of race relations, par ticularly in the Negro-white trea: and that, as funds become avail able. the Association develop a Don-institutional type of pioneer ing work which would St-nd com petent repersentatives into various communities to work by such methods as the local situation shall suggest and make possible." This is another combination worked out in connection with ‘•vested interests", particularly the Rosenwald Fund and Fisk univer sity. a great concentration of mon ey. experience and contacts. Thy change of emphasis is so revolu tionary that it is viewed with mis giving in many quarters. The ama. was definitely not a planned organization. It was a direct response to a dire luman need, the Amistad incident: the necessity for protecting these freed slaves, educating them, sending them back to their native coun try. Subsequently it was found that one could not stop with mere ly rehabilitating and repatriating these Africans but that there were many tasks remaining yet to be done__a never ending chain of new responsibilities- The prog ram of the AMA. has been simply this: “wherever there is a dark corner or an unredressed wrong, there is a place for the AMA.” This has taken in all races of pea pie in every part of the world mountain whites. Negroes. Porto Ricans. Indians. Japanese. Chin ese. Alaskans and a hundred years ago. even Koreans and Africans. CHANGED SCHOOL POLICY At the turn of the century the AMA. had more than 40 secondary schools and Colleges There re main of this vast group only- Tal ladega college. Tougaloo college. Tillotson college and LeMoy-ne Junior college, and Lincoln school. Marion. Ala.: Trinity school. Ath ens. Ala.: Cotton Valley school. Fort Davis. Ala-. Lincoln academy j King's Mountain. X. C.: Avery in stitute .Charleston. S. C.; Fossen den academy. Martin. Fla.: Brick ] Rural Life school. Enfield. X. C.: and Dorchester academy. Dorches ter, Ga. "When the AMA. began cutting down on its secondary i schools and concentrating on col- : leges a generation ago. a great cry wet up from the Xegro grad uates and former students in the south. However, it was plainiy manifest that new conditions teach new duties: that there was a grow ing sense of responsibility on the part of southern whites for the education of all citizens .including Xegroes; that the public school work of the south could not be | done perpetually by a misSiOnary I organization. After passing this hurdle the A MA began the painful and labor -ous process of standardizing the | colelges upon which it was con centrating. raising endowments and Securing the t ype of equip ment and teachers necessary fcr “A" 'classification. These proces ses of elimination and standardiz ation have been about completed, and now the AMA faces another changing world. Its experience goes to show the difficulty of en tailing property, gifts or funds for some perpetual use. In this de parture the AMA faces the hurdl es of 1. the imputation of nebul osity; 2. the reaction against race (Continued page 3) » WASHINGTON, (ANP) Singl ing out Dean William Pickens as the one of 39 to be denied pay for alleged communistic affiliations, the house committee as a whole voted 163 to HI Friday to amend the billion dollar Treasury Post Office Apprpriation bill to provide that no money in it should be used to pay the dean—top Negro em ploye on the bond sales division. It refused to amend the bill to bar payment to the 39 named on the Dies list, but voted later on to bar Pickens alone—one of the Negroes named: INFLUENCED BY DIES COMMITTEE DIES TELLS CONGRESS HIS FRIENDSHIP FOR NEGROES THEN PINS RED LABEL ON PICKENS, BETHI NK CHARGES A. CLAYTON POWELL WANTS HIM ASSASSINATED _ WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — Martin Dies, representative from Texas who is at the capital help ing Hitler fight Red Russia, des cribed himself as a “friend of the Negro” before Congress Monday before listing 40 “Communist crack pots.” among them Dean William Pickens and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune. This is the second time that the head of the Dies commit tee has singled out the two dis tinguished leaders as "dangerous Red radicals.” Dies painted himself as pro-Ne gro when he told of defending a Negro named Ben Wilkes in Tex as when no other lawyer would go into court for him. Wilkes had been indicted as an accessory t.o crime after his son had killed 3 white men and Dies defended him and “protected him against any possibility of lynching,” according to the story. The Texan also claims to be one of the few men in his state to fight the Ku Klux Klan when the hooded tribe was in power there He said e stumped against the Klan throughout the state and for his fight against it was burned in effigy and his law firm boycotted by that group. Dies also took a shot at Negro newspapers and their fights for social equality. Speaking of one New York newspaper, he said: “In the Peoples' Voice not long ago. A. Clayton Powell, a Negro Communist, advocated that I be assissinated—that my death was as desirable as Hitler's Immediately other publications took it up and throughout the Negro press there was a most vicious denunciation not only of me but of congress. "V'hat do they hope to gain by that? We in our country live in peace with the Negro: we respect him. for he has contributed much to the progress of the country. I have made hundreds of speeches in this country, and in many speeches I have said to the American peo ple that the great majority of the Negroes are loyal .patriotic Amer ican citizens.” His accusations against the two leaders were stated as follows: ‘‘Now. take the case of William Pickens, who is principal securit ies promotion specialist for the treasury- department at a salary of *5.600. Pickens signed a mani fest in defense of the notorious Communist Sam Darcy. Pickens was vice chairman of the Ameri- ( can League Against War and Fas cism, which the attorney general branded as subversive. He was al so a contributor to the Commun ist party's New Masses. He was a sponsor of the Greater New York Emergency Conference on Inalien able Rights, a section of the Na tional Federation for Constitution al Liberties which the attorney general also found to be subvers ive. Pickens was a sponsor of the American Committee for Prop < t ion of Foreign-Bom. a speaker for the L'nited States Congress a gainst war. and a sponsor of the American Committee for DemOe- 1 racy and Intellectual Freedom. “Here is the case of Mary Me-: Leod Bethunp who is employed by the National Youth administration at a salary of *6.250. Mary Mc Leod Bethune was publicly and prominently affiliated with four of the organizations which the at torney general has branded as sub versive. She was national vice chairman of the American League for Peace and Democracy. The other three subversive Organizat ions with which she was affiliated were the American Youth congress the National Negro congress and the Washington Committee for De imocratic Action.” On the occasion of a previous attack both Dean Pickens and Mir.. Bethune issued statements deny ing all allegations made by the Texan. The other attacks were levelled at some 38 other persons white, holding important government pos itions. RESTORE F-E-P-C ...Says Roosevelt RAILROAD HEARINGS TO BE HELD WASHINGTON, )iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiimiiiiiiiii INTRODUCES LEGISLATIVE BILL 263 HARRY A. FOSTER A Bill introduced in the Legis lature of Nebraska's Fiifty sixth session, that may affect the Negro People of this state was introduced by Harry A. Foster and Sam Klu ver of Douglas County. The Bill Legislative Bill 263 is as 'follow#'’ -~w--. FOR AN ACT relating to dis crimination in the employment of labor; to provide that it shall lie unlawful to refuse employment to any person in the production of military or naval material, equip ment or supplies on acount of race color, creed religion or national origin of such person; and to pro vide a penalty. Be It Enacted by the people of the state of Nebras ka. WHHBHIBIlinHKiA a m turning Wednesday, he was placed under the care of a physician and reports have been spread that he is suffering with a "nervous break down." PLAN FIRST NEGRO MARINE BAND WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (ANP>— A cracker jack band, unusual in ur. its the size of the 5lst Composite Defense battalion, U. S. Mar ne corps, is being organized at the New River Training base in North Carolina. The musical unit will soon be ready for public appear ance .it is announced. A varied program is being planned for the frist Negro Marine band. DETROIT GETS FIRST P. O. SUPERINTENDENT DETROIT. Feb. 12 (AXP)—Sam uel Russell, the new superintend ent or the Alfred Street Post Of fice branch station, began his dut ies Feb. l. it js the first time that a Negro postal employe h'-^ attained that rank in the service here. Air. Russell is a veteran having been in the postal servi e in Detroit for 45 years, postmis ter Roscoe B. Hueston jomei many friends and fellow workers in wishing him success in his new assignment DINAH SHORE LIKES HltCHlTA FT.H UACHUCA, Ariz.. Feb. 11 (AXP)—Dinah Shore, popular Ten nessee born radio star, was a re cent visitor to Fort Huachuca and sang for the 93d Division soldiers in the field house here. Showing herself to be entirely democratic, Miss Shore had her photo taken with a Negro MP as soon as sho entered the gate and wrote aut-v graphs graciously for hundreds of soldiers. As she was leaving Miss Shor » said, “The 93d division soldiers are j one of the grandest audiences I I have ever sung before. I hope I j van come back soon and that I can stay just a little longer than I did this time.