—-wAAtAv.iiifmiif.r./ s s GoodJteading LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRE8S E: -cred as Second-Class Matter at The Post Office, Omaha, Nebraska Saturday, March 27, 1943 OUR 16th YEAR—No. 7 Citv Edition, 5c Copy UntUr Act of March 8, 1874— Business Ph ne WE. 1517___ * INDIFFERENT, TO BEST INTEREST OF RACE AND I DEMOCRACY .Says Jud3e Hastie \ -----—— 1 --— - — WWWW I Bricker, Stassen Loom As G.O.P. \ Candidates in 944 So. R.R. Co. Pays $3,750 For Attack On Baptist Clergyman New York N Y —The Rev. J, C. Jackson distinguished Hartford. Connecticut Baptist minister and president of til® New England Baptist Convention who was beat en September «th by a white pas senger on a train in the south has received a settlement of $3T'«0 from th Southern Railway Comp any the NAACP announced this week Thurgood Marshall NAA CP Special Counsel and Arthur Garfield Hays of the national N\ ACP legal committee handled the case which wras settled out of court Expressing his appreciat ion to the NAACP for its success ful conduct of the case. Rev. Jack son stated that he felt that “the public .wag entitled to know of rh > settlement . The settlement was made on the grounds that a public carrier is responsible for the safe delivery of its passengers to their destin ation and the protection of such passengers against harm inflicted bv fellow passenger* if the proper authorities have been duly warned of the imminence of such harm. The attach upon the 76 year old Rev Jackson, occurred while he and his traveling companion. Rev. S. A. Young, were on a Southern Railway train ebrOute to the Na tional Baptist convention at Mem phis. Tennessee, Rev, Jackson and Rev, Young attempted to pass through a white coach and Rev. Young was struck on the face by J. T. Hudson of Decatur. Alabama, who shouted. "Don't come through here Niggers have been coming through here all day and I'm tir ed of it." Young reported this to the conductor. A half-hour later Rev. Jackson was brutally beaten by the same passenger. The plain tiff held that the conductor had ample opportunity to restrain Hud son or eject him from the tram. Theat To Negro Worker j In Conscript of Labor WALTER WHITE BEFORE I SENATE .MILITARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE NEAT WEEK Washington. DC,—Because of the nation-wide concern among Ne gro workers for the implications •f the proposed Austin-Wadswerth Bill, Walter White, NAACP Exe cutive Secretary will testify Mon day. March 29. before the Senate Military -Affairs Committee, it was learned this week. The NAACP has urged a careful scrutiny of the bill designed to “provide for the successful prose cution of the war through a system of Civil Selective War Service." The Austin-Wadsworth bill will permit the drafting of males be tween the ages of 18 and 64 and women between the ages of 18 and 50 or possibly 64. Before the Committee, White will restate the NAACP'h convic tion that there is no need for a drafting of labor until all available voluntary labor is utilized. In support of the Association's stand. White pointed out that in a poll of. 9QDQ industries reported in the February issue of Fortunue, three fourths of the war industry plants! still refuse to employ Negroes. "So long as a huge reservoir of workers in the United States is refusing employment because tra | ditional prejudices based on race, religion or sex." White told the i press “there can be no justificat ion for a conscription of labor.” White said that he also saw in this legislation, unless adequate ! safeguards are set up a repetition j of the vicious practices of the j Work or Fight Order of Provost ’Marsh General Crowder during the ! last war. At that time cities and towns and rural communities pass ed compulsory labor ordinances and by this means met with part ' ia[ success in keeping the Negro | Poulation at its former work and | sometimes at pre-war low wages. — NAACP REPORTS PROFIT ON ANNUAL DANCE New York. N. Y.—The National To Hold War-time Business Clinic Birmingham. March 22 (ANP) —5 The Birmingham local Negro Bus iness league will hold a War-Time Business Clinic here Thursday. April 8. The affair which will em brace the southern region of the National Negro Business league is one of a series of regional clinics to focus attention upon the pres ent status of Negro business enter prises as effected by the war. The C. S. Department of Commerce through Emmer Martin Lancaster, its adviser on Negro affairs, is co operating to bring the latest vital information for use at the clinic. On April 7, the day before the clinic, Dr. J. E. Walker, president of the National Negro Business league and Dr. F. D. Patterson, chairman of its steering commit tee. have called the steering com mittee t« meet in Birmingham. At this meeting the general program for the meeting in Baltimore next August will be planned. Mr3. Rosa Brown Bracy, the newly ap pointed field representative of the league, will report upon her act ivities and experiences during her first swing through Florida and Georgia. A. G. Gaston, prominent business man of this city, is in I charge of arrangements and ac commodations for both the clinic and steering committee meetings. Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced this week that the sale of tickets for its Annual Birthday Ball here has to date shown a profit of J2.016.18 and that sales on 2,319 of the tic kets have not yet been reported. The NAACP party which attracn-d a capacity crowd t® the polden Gate Ballroom on February 26. had the donated music of Count Basie and his Orchestra. ntTnewspapers^ BAN JIM CROW ADS New York, N. Y,—An item in a recent hotel trade publication stating that metropolitan newspa pers would no longer accept dis criminating advertisements was cited this week by the XAACP as a step forward in the interest of rac ial unity. The XAACP said the new policy should help in fore stalling the "hate season" so lab- j elled by the newspaper PM last year when that paper launched a campaign against the printing by newspapers of resort and hotel ad vertisements in which the words ' restricted" and "select clientele" were used. The story in "Travel Items” Fjb ruary I5r warned: “New York newsapers will no longer accept advertising from ho tels and resorts with such words and terms as “restricted", "select clientele " or 'exclusive." In oth er words no advertisement can show prejudice toward race, color, or creed. The newspapers acted on orders from the District At torney’s office of New York Coun ty which warned accepting such advertising was a violation of Chapter 40 of the New York State Civil Rights Law and the penalty was a fine up to J500 or up to 90 days imprisonment or both. Tile District Attorney informed news papers that immediate action will be taken against all violations." OPA CUT MAY AFFECT NEGRO LAWYERS ■Washington. March 23 (ANP) — An unverified statement that the Office of Price Administration : plans to drop some of its 2.y ' lawyers will probably see some of West Coast Housing Head Defies flay ERNEST JOHNSON) _ WASHINGTON. March 25 (AXPt Simultaneous with the flareup o'er the question of admitting Ne gro war worac -s to the Willow ' Rnn Housing urojeet in the Detvo-t ^ s'ta. a scrap wihch hag provoke lj m> ny to see a weakening in the • earlier policy if the general Pub-1 l;c Housing admln-stration. cotr-es the announcement that Langd>n W Post FPHA. regional director ! for the west -oaut section, inr -r'i Cd all local uo:i*:ng autho-ties ttir; he is arai-ist discrim nation ans or jswteet* 1.1 chr its .urisdiction.' rM post is he former tenement ii. use commissioner in the firs*, administration of Mayor Ficrella H EaGuardia of New York, and later became chabman of that city's local housing authority U was under him tin-i the polices ir.-tituted by Nathan Straus, fui n,*-r head of the t uifd Sta*?s heus ta- authority who wa* fei’.ed »y the southern tecc-onary bio: be cause of hi» stand, were applied in New York- A* a result that c .> today has some 12 public hou3 jhg projects r'in.-m-ed :n whole &> fede-al funds in au of which Ne groes live. Tie statement cf policy affects h -smg in all the west coast stat es ra-d in Aril -na. loth slum clear- ; a tec and defen a*. It comes as : a affir..i^t:on of a to'ng (bat has ; been practiced all along by most of the local authorities in the region. Probably the most difficult job in the area is that being done in Vallejo, Calif., where at least thiee race riots have flared in recent weeks. When Maurice J. Wiisie. white, executive director of tue local authority there took over his job he inherited a war housing situation that had been dominated by navy department policy. In the face of this handicap, Mr. Wil sit has been able to integrate Doth Negro and white families into the m*TC tiian 15,000 units of the Val ' lejo projects and reports that bis work is proceeding satisfactorily and harmoniously. Up in Seattle, the situation is duplicated. Here the mixture :n ! eluded Filipinos and formerly Jap | anese too. Oakland and Los An geles in California present what id 13aic to be an excellent picture, j In the latter city a large Mexican i element enters into the racial char acter of the projects, and in ?1 j most all of them there is a fairly good mixing. A good deal of responsibility for this is attribut ed to the efforts of Mrs. Charlotta Bass, Negro member of the local authority. Across the bay in Marin City Jivhere the shipbuilding industry has made war housing imperative, members of all races are occupying (Continued on page2^=4) CHICAGO N AACP ASSAILS NAVY’S FAILURE TO USE TRAINED INSTRUCTORS Chicago- 111.—The failure of the Civil Service Commission here to appoint qualified Negro ground school instructors to the Navy De partment was protested to Presi dent Roosevelt this week by the Chicago NAACP. In a telegram to the Whit? House the NAACP pointed o*:t that although it has been more than a year since some of the in structors completed their train ing. not one has been assigned while a number of the whites trained at the same time are now teaching. “The appropriate use of man power requires.' said the XAACP. “that these men be assigned to the highest and best use for which {hey have demonstrated their qualifications. Recently some of them have been classified for im mediate induction into the armed forces because the Navy Depart mnt has not given them the as signment for which they have been i trained. These men have no fear i of induction, They are loyal citiz ens who want to serve their coun try to the fullest extent of their ability. It will be a great injus tice to deprive them of their rights simply because of racial prejudices. It may mean the loss of the war for the United Nations, The names of these men are:— James O, Lee, Robert F. short, Richard L. Farmer. Cassim M. Pendleton. Douglas R, Turner, J, W, Porter. Wilburn W, Barton, Robert L. Cole. Clarence Stephens, and Frederick P. Blair, Jr. They and we on their behalf ask your intercession to the end that us tice and fair Play be accorded them." the Negro attorneys affected or moved up. One of the best known legal lights on the OPA staff is Robert Ming, Howard university professor on leave. Elsie Austin. Delta president, is also on the le gal staff at OPA. k — - FREE 52-YEAR OLD MESS MAX CHARGED WITH THREATEN ING CAPTAIN WITH RAZOR I New York. March 21 IANP) U. S. Commissioner Cotter this wee* freed 52-year old Jerry Ellison, a ; coast guard messman who was ac I cused of threatening the captain of an unnamed Trinidad-bound ship. A lack of evidence Prompted U. S. Attv. Brown to move that the case be dismissed. Until that time ! PARTY WANTS NEW FACES, NEW BLOOD WASHINGTON, March 22 (ANP) While the Democrats are grooming Roosevelt for a fourth term in the j White House. Republicans are un decided over their candidate and |have made no move to select one. although several oustandjng men in the party are being seriously considered in the clean sweep of i old candidates. The party wants ‘ new faces and new blood and is determined to get it. Outstanding at the present time are two governors. Bricker of Ofcuo and Stassen of Minnesota. Bricker. celebrating with his na five Ohioans the 100th anniversary of President William McKinley’s birth, has a career which thus far parallels that of the martyred lea der. Both served with distinction in the United States army and came out of wars as officers. And from (continued on pagej^“2) wmmmmmmm m-m Its Effort To Concentrate Black Aviation Program Around Its Campus A Selfish One. NOTE: The following statement by William H .Hastie describes and criticizes a new development in the Army Air program as it af fects Negroes. Although Judge Hastie has completed his recent series of statements on the Air Forces, he considers this new and most recent recent development to be a matter which should receive public attention everywhere. BY WILLIAM H. HASTIE The Army Air Forces have just announced a new program of five months academic training in selen ed colleges to be given to soldiers before they begin army flyir.g I I training. The men will be taught by the college faculties and will live on the campus. Over a hun dred schools all over the country have been selected to provide this preliminary college training. Bu; eligible Negro soldiers are to be segregated and all of them sent to Tuskegee Institute to study phys ics, mathematics, history. English and Geography. Me nfrom all parts of the country, men with varying educational background, a large number Of them already grad uates of first rate liberal arts col leges. must be sent to Tuskegee Institute for rive months of under 'Cont nued on pagtl^°4> Fraternal Council Churches Meet in Memphis Apr. 28*30 »»»»»## I FORM NEGRO SQUAD TO COMBAT CRIMINALS Philadelphia. Pa.. March 21— A campaign instituted by Negro civ ic, religious and fraternal leaders and supported by the Negro press, to crack down on the criminal el ement in their own race here, re ceived official backing in the ap pointment of a special squad of 25 Negro plainc-lothesmen by Pub lic Safety Director James H. Ma lone. Ellison was held in $1,000 bail for asault. Ellison was brought to New York in handcuff, and was shackled with legirons. He was turned over to federal authorities. He is said to have threatened Capt. Michael J. Wjed with a razor during an ar gument Ellison is a native of Port Arth ur. Texas. FBI authorities would not say whether or not he will re turn to his job. FRATERNAL COUNCIL OF CHUCRHES MEET IN MEMPHIS APRIL 28.30 MEMPHIS. March 23 (ANP) The executive committee of the Negro Fraternal Council of Churches in America has completed the pro gram for the annual meeting to be held here April 28, £9, and 30. The executive committee will meet at 3 p. m. or. the first day. The gen eral theme of the meeting is "The Negro church organizing to me,-t Present day and post war prob lems.” The annual address will be delivered by Bishop J. A. Bray of Chicago. The following church leaders are expected; Bishop W. A. Fountain. Ft, C. Ransom, J. A. Gregg, D, II, Sims, D. Ward Nicols, G. E. Curr7. of the AME church: Bishop P. A. Wallace, W. W. Mathew, B. G. Shaw. W, J, Walls. C. C, Alleyae, J. W. Martin of the AME Zion church; Bishops Bray. J. A. Ham lett. W. Y. Bell of the CME church Bishops R. E. Jones. A. J, Shaw and L, H, King of the ME church; DrS. W. H. Jernagan. Roland Smith, J. L. Horace, J. H. Marsh all and President D, V, Jemison of th" National Baptist convention: iji. -lOrace White of the Congrega tional church; Bishop Ernst of the Orthodox church. The following educators will ap pear on program: Presidents C. H. Wesley of Wilberforce, Benjamin Mays of Morehouse. W. M. Fraz ' ier of Mississippi Industrial col lege, Trent of Livingstone. Also DrS. J. W. Eichelberger. S. S. Mor ris. W. M. Talley. B. Julian Smith. The meeting is planned to be one of the most important religious gatherings ever held in this city. Local arrangements are being handled by an interdenominational committee consisting of Rev». W. L. Powell. B. M, Womack. D. W, Jones. ‘ Jury Sentences Two Whites for Rape Of Negro Girl Murfreesboro. Tenn.. March (AXP)—Two whites. Robert Lane. 26 and Cloe Norris, 20, were last week found guilty of raping 16 year old Lorell Pinkerton, a high school girl, last December. Judge T. L. Coleman fixed the defendant's bond at So.000 each. Since the arrests the two men have been in jail without bond. From the beginning, it is said that the entire circuit court jury agreed that the men should be convicted of rape but because they were not in accord about the length of the Prison term they deliberated am ong themselves overnight. Miss Pinkerton was a first year student at the Negro high school here. She rides the bus from hrr home on Jefferson road a few mil es north of Murfreesboro. The rape took place while she was en route from the bus to her home. Rutherford County Negroes raised funds to employ three law yers to assist in the prosecution which was led by Dist. Atty Gen. John J. Jewell Jr., who brought but the point that the girl wRs forced into a car by Lane and Nor ris and was twice raped by each. S. C. Jackson and Jewell Wash ington, consels for the defense, claimed that the girl entered the car willingly and was paid $l.Oo by the two men. The only witnesses for the de fense were two brothers, Albert and Leo Brewer, who said that the girl's past record was bad. On cross examination, however, they were unable to support any uf their statements. The court room was filled with spectators. The judge declared that he would arrest any person who created a disturbance of any kind. A jury was selected from 55 men who were questioned on color Pre judice; whether be wOuld allow prejudice to influence his decision. Two young children testified for the girl; William Gann. 8, said he was in the front yard when he saw aman push Lorell into the car. His sister. Susie Gann, 11 .said she saw the two men twice top the car and say omething to the giri as she walked on the lane near the Bond house. The child said that Lorell did not stop but kept walking. Lorell’s physician. Dr. J. R. ' Gott. who examined her shortly .after the rape, said he found her I torn and bleeding internally. Give A Patriot’s Share to The Red Cross THEY GUARD.OUR COASTLINES OFFICIAL B. S. MMT 9SNAL CORPS PWTO FROM 9M1 With the jungle in the distant background, a crack Coast Artillery regiment unit goes through maneuvers at Trinidad, British West Indies. This gun crew is only one of the many crack Negro units now in action tAfiXOL / OFFICIAL 0. S. AMY SGML CORPS FHOTO FROM Cm Enemy craft will have tough going if they attempt a sneak attack on Trinidad, British West Indies, where a crack U. S. Coast Artillery regi ment is stationed. A height-finder is shown reporting data on approach ing aircraft for use by gun crews in lining up enemy planes in their sights. onncuu. s. $. mit s«ml corm photo fmm am It is not all work and no play for members of a U. S. Coast Artillery regiment stationed in Trinidad, British West Indies, as the above shot of a regimental dance shows. Before the American troops arrived, jitter bugging was practically unknown on the island, but it wasn't long before the local lassies were cutting rugs with the best of them.