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UntUr Act of March 8, 1874— Business Ph ne WE. 1517___ *
INDIFFERENT, TO BEST INTEREST OF RACE AND I DEMOCRACY .Says Jud3e Hastie
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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.
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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.
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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<K>
' 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
an<i segregation in any public pro
Jen** under his Jurisdiction.
His memorandum to the auth«r
)ti*-s dated F<-b. IT. and released
here by the racial relations divis
ion cb FPHA on W dn©S *ay, sai l:
This is to inf am you that it is
the general po.ioy or Region X uf
ti-c Fcderal Public Housing a i:n
ority that the.e shall be neither
discrimination r »r segregation rf
minority gr<»ur>s 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
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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.
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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
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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
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Fraternal Council Churches
Meet in Memphis Apr. 28*30
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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.