Ralph Cooper Adds Riff Singer, Comedians As Guests Over Air-Waves
(by Delores Calvin) l -—
New York (CNS)—With the Jump I
ing band of Georgie James in the
background, Ralph Cooper, me for
Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Air Show,
introduced the new riff singer sen
sation, Ann Robinson. Cooper ask
ed her why she sings riff and she
answered, “Well ,ol’ man, It’s
just my way of Chinking.” It was
just like Ann to say that. Then
she sang, Ol Man River and Sum
mer Time, practically changing all
of the words to jive.
Another feature on the program
were the comedians who recently
played the Apollo Theatre, Patter
son and Jackson. Their favorite*
hit of nonsense is “What do you
know, Joe” is last year's talk.
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Now, when you walk down Harl
em's Lenox Avenue these days,
they say, "When do you go, Joe?”
Jackson was on hand first this j
particular Tuesday evening, so he
explained to Cooper, "you know
in every comedian team, there 's
one intelligent and the one ignor
ant guy. The intelligent one can
find his way around—so here I an».
Looks like Patterson won’t make
it.” Just as he said that, Patter
son came bursting in crying, "I
am Warren Patterson, the other
half of this intelligent team!” Pat
terson did again liis fine interpret
»tion of the Ink Spots singing “Do
I Worry”. When Jackson leaves
him on the stage to do the imper
sonation, Patterson looks so stu
pid that it's hard to believe he can
do it. until he really does!
OPERA COMPANY STAGES
DC. MASS MEET
WASHINGTON, March 22 (ANP
The National Negro Opera Co., Inc
last week held a mass meeting at
the John Wesley AME. Church.
The meeting, held to acquaint the
public with the activities of the op
era company and to present to the
audience some of the race's out
standing talent, was presided over
by Miss Florence Toms, doe to the
absence of Mrs. Mary Bethune.
Vocal selections were rendered
by Miss Ruth R. Logan. W. E. Al
len, and Mr. William Robinson.
O, D, Meeks was the violinist of
the day.
The managing editor of the Was
hington Afro-American Ralph Mat
thews delivered an enthusistic ad
dress to a huge audience. He em-1
phasized the importance of the race
encouraging its artists. Another
address was given by Mrs. Mary
Cardwell Dawon founder and pres- j
ident of the Dawson School of Mu
sic of Pittsburgh.
M“uch of the dissension centered !
around the rendition of the opora
“Aida” which has been presented
in Pittsburgh under the guidance i
of Maestro Vajda, with the Pitts- j
burgh symphony furnishing the
musical brackground, and in Chi
cago, on Oct. 11, 1942, when the
Chicago Civic Opera Co., accomp
anied the company and supplied
the costumes.
FAMOUS AUTHOR, WHO GAVE j
COLORED GIRL POETRY
PRIZE, DIES
New York (CNS)—Stephen Vin- j
cent Benet, 44 year old author and ;
pet, who just recently presented [
the Yale Series poetry prize to J
Miss Margaret Walker for her
stirring poem on the Negro, died
this week of a heart attack at his (
home. 215 East 68th Street. Mr. \
Benet is author of “John Brown’ s
Body” a 100,000 word narrative
piece on the Civil War, which won
the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. Mr.
Benet comes from a long line of
literary men. His brother, Will
KEEP
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Even if the war is won this year, there may not be
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makers. It means we must all do everything we can
to prolong the life of each appliance we own.
Below you will find helpful suggestions for caring
for some of your electrical appliances. Read each
of them carefully. Suggestions for appliances not
mentioned will be gladly given by your electric
dealer at any time. See him soon!
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After each
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Clean tub.
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Leave cover
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er rolls.
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is tight . . .
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better.
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clean. Bris
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extend '/a-in.
below nozzle.
Empty cleaner dust bag once
each week.
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quire peri
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frost will increase operating
costs.
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AMERICAN HERO-WORJLD WAR
AH INSPIRATION TO OOR fl6HTlH& HEHRY JOHNSON AND NEEDHAM
HAEM TODAY ROBERTS WERE THE FIRST
AMERICAN S01WERS TO RECEIVE
THE COVETED CROIX DE GUERRE!
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Before the war,
JOHNSON WAS A PfM.tFOl
£RKAE IN AL6ANY.N.Y. •!
l
BATTLE: owi
HENRY JOHNSON'
"When A RAIDING PARTY ATTEMPTED TO PANS
ROBERTS, HIS SEVERELY WOUNDED BUDDY, AWAY AS A MKONER,
IITTLE HENRY WENT TO WORN WITH Hl$ DEADLY FRENCH BOLO
KNIFE. BETWEEN THEM, ROBERTS HURLING GRENADES,AND JOHNSON
WIELDING HIS WICKED BOLO, THEY KILLED FOUR OF THE RAIDERS.
AMD WOUNDED OK ROUTED AT LEAST TWENTY FOUR MORE!'.
iam Rose Benet and his sisterLau
ra Benet are brilliant poets.
Winner of the O. Henry short
story prize and a Guggenheim Fel
lowship, short-sigfaited Benet had
just finished some anti-Axis writ
ings, namely "Freedom From
Fear”
As judge of the Yale Series of
younger poets, he selected the first
colored winner since the beginning
of the contest in 1919. Her poem
"For My People”- was published
by the Yale University press. Mr.
Benet described it as the express
ion of the times, written in straight
forward words conveying the “con
trolled intensity of emotion” of
this young poet. The tone of the
poems in this collection is that of
spiritual and folk song.
SUGGESTIONS OF G-E
WORKERS SET NEW MARK
SAVE 11,250,000 MAN-HOURS
IN 1942
Schenectady, N. Y., March 20—
War Workers’ production ideas
saved 1,250,000 man-hours in Gen
eral Electric plants during 1942,
Paying a record $158,943 for 16,204
suggestions by employees, nearly
doubling the amount paid in 1929,
the previous record year, accord
ing to a statement by the Comp
any.
Two workers received awards of
$1200 each, equalling an individ
ual mark set in 1926. Jerry Buc
cuzzo of Lynn, Mass., who man
aged to enlist in the Navy when
only 16 back in 1916, suggested a
means of reducing the warm up
time in testing of airplane super
cfhargers, vital to high altitude
flying. Flying Mizak of Brdige- i
years, submitted an idea for sav-;
ing tool steel and skilled machin
ists time in turning out certain
marine parts.
Several women received high a
wards; Laura Garrison of Schen
ectady was high with $350 for a
suggestion saving vital materials
in radio assembly. Mrs. Edith Ho
gan of Lynn was awarded $250 for
her idea which saves 80 “woman
hours” a week in marking dials
for instruments and Mrs. Bertha
Christoffel of Fort Wayne, Ind.,
24 year old ex waitress, earned
$120 for suggesting an improve
ment in assembling small aircraft
devices.
Spencer Frederick of Schenect
ady received $1025 for two sugges
tions which together saver 647,000
pounds of scarce steel. Robert
Spring of Schenectady earned $710
in awards for radio suggestions
which save 17,000 man-hours a
year.
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Awarded "M” Pennant
Three members of the Paxton
Mitchell labor management com- j
mittee received the Maritime lab
or merit badges for the, employes j
of the company in a ceremony Fri
day, March 19, at the plant at
which the company was awarded
the "M” pennant for excellence in
production of parts for Liberty
FIRST NEBRASKA PLANT
RECEIVES "M” AWARD
Omaha, March 19, —More than
4(>0 employees of the Paxton-Mit
chell company stopped work for
only an hour Friday, March 19, to
participate in ceremonies for pres
entation of the Maritime commis
sions “M” pennent and employees
merit badges for excellence in pro
duction of parts for Liberty ships.
It was the first "M” award to !
be presented to a Nebraska war j
Plant.
Samuel B. Hicks of Chicago, re
gional attorney for the Maritime
Commission and its official repres
entative in presenting the awards,
praised the company for being
first in this district to establish a
labor-management organization to
speed production.
"You have a record of continu
ous production without stoppage
of work, made possible by your ex
cellent training program for new !
employees,” Mr. Hicks said. “You
have increased your production
four and one-half times and the
number of employees about four
times. One of the most remark
able things about your record is
that you were able to attain pro
duction without governmental fin
ancial assistance and without pur
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in Nebraska. Left to right are
Samuel B. Hicks, regional attorney
of the Maritime Commission, - who
made the award: Joseph Rusin,
Don Ulmer and William Ziegler,
members of the plant's labor man
agement Committee.
chasing any new machine tools.”
Mr. Hicks also praised the com
pany for having, sought contracts
connected with the war effort and
having secured them through their
;>wn efforts and resourcefulness.
In many instances, orders have
been completed months ahead of
schedule, he said.
In accepting the “M” pennant
from the Maritime commission,
James L. Paxton. Jr., 34 year old
president of Paxton-Mitchell com
pany, declared it was a challenge
for still greater production.
“Although we are operating 24
hours a day, an often seven days
a week, we have yet to reach max
imum production,” Mr. Paxton
said. “Our goal is to add another
gold star to this pennant every
six months.’’
Joseph Rusin, one of three mem
bers of the plant’s labor-manage
ment committee, also accepted the
merit badges for employees as a
ehallenege for still greater produc
tion.
“We recognize the importance of
the parts we are producing for Lib
erty ships to back up our men on
the battlefronts who are fighting
for the preservation of our liberty.
Without victory there can be no
liberty,” he said.
First speaker called upon by W.
C. Fraser, Omaha Attorney, who
was chairman of the day, was Gov
ernor Dwight Griswold, who paid
tribute to the company for having
set a splendid example to the peo
ple of Nebraska. He also paid tri
bute to the 75,000 men and women,
of Nebraska now serving the arm
ed forces, and declared that “Ne
braskans are going ahead with jr.e
heart and mind to do the job."
Robert T. Sessions, maritime
sailor from San Francisco, who re
cently returned from service a
board a Liberty’ ship in the convoy
on the North African invasion, wa»
the last speaker. He commended
the "soldiers of production" as e
ijually essential to the men who
man the ships and fight on the
battlefronts. Only through the
best efforts of all is victory assur
ed. he said.
Guests at the award presenta
tion in the afternoon, and at the
dinner at Hotel Fontenelle. Friday
nigh, concluding the celebration,
included Msgr. E. J. Flanagan,
founder and director of Boys Town
Lt. R. J. Mahoney of the Navy, Lt,
Robert E. Woods, serving with the
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HASTIE SAYS TUSKEGEE
SHOWING CALLOUS
INDIFFERENCE TO BEST
INTEREST OF NEGRO AND
DEMOCRACY IN WAR
EFFORT
. ITS EFFORT TO CONCEN- . . .
..TRATE BLACK AVIATION .....
..PROGRAM AROUND TUSKE-. .
..GEE A SELFISH ONE .
(Continued from page 1)
graduate training, just because
^they happen to be colored.
Even if Tuskegee were an out
standing liberal arts college, whicn
it is not, this newest and wholly
(unnecessary Jim Crow scheme
I would be inexcusable. In all the
I circumstances the plan is outrag
I eoUs. The time has come when the
| unholy alliance between Tuskegee
I Institute and the Army Air Forces
must be publicly denounced and
condemned. Let there be no mis
take. Tuskegee lis rendering no
valuable service to the war effort
i nthis latest step in its effort to
concentrate a black aviation pro
gram on and around the TUske
I gee campus. With callous indif
1 ference to the best interests of the
Negro and to the importance of
democracy in the war effort, Tus
kegee Institute is looking out for
Tuskegee. The school gets its
mess of pottage and the Air Forc
es have a willing and valuable ac
complice in their design of keep
j ing Negro soldiers out o fall urse
gregated colleges.
Several hundred Negroes may be
affected by this scheme almost
immediately. Early in March the
Air Forces called to active duty
the entire waiting list of several
hundred qualified Negro aviation
cadet applicants. I am sure of
this because of my personal ac
quaintance with several of the men
who were near the bottom of the
list and have been called to duty.
These are the men who, after the
usual preliminary processing, face
the prospect of five months under
graduate study at Tuskegee before
they begin aviation training.
It still remains to be seen what
will be done with these men after
they finish five months of college
study at Tuskegee Institute. A
report was sent from Tuskegee to
a leading newspaper that some of
these men are t° become bombar
dirs and navigators. There is no
apparent truth to this report. 1
can find no evidence from any
source of any plan to train Negro
es for bombardment aviation It
Seem to me that someone has tried
to take the curse off of this latest
Tuskegee outrage by circulating
the false report that new opport
unity is being provided for Negro
es in the field of bombadrment av
iation. The whole thing smells
very bad.
There is one further question
which we must ask and continue
to ask until an answer is given.
W!h.at about new Negro applicants
for aviation cadet training now
that the waiting1 list is exhausted?
I do not know of any plan of the
Air Forces for accepting or using
additional Negro applicants. Will
they be accepted? If so will they
go on a waiting list to remain
there until 1944? I know from ex
perience that the Air Command
makes piecemeal special plans for
Negroes to meet the emergency at
hand and then lets the matter’
drop until another emergency a
rises. There is grave danger, un
less the public keeps the issue
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dormitory and family 'units along
side each other. This has been the
case since the project’s opening.
Following a minor disturbance at
the outset. Guy A. Ciocca, execut
ive director for Marin City, wrote
to each of the tenants in their
weekly newsletter:
“We must tell you that it is the
Policy of the management to house
all Marin county shipyard workers
for whom we have accommodations
irrespective of their religion, race,
color or position in the shipyards.
We must further tell you that
when any difficulty arises as a re
sult of racial difficulty, the man
agement will be forced to request
the originator of the trouble to
move immediately. All colors, all
races, all peoples must and shall
live here in peace and in such com
fort as we can provile. The pro
ject is ogvernmental property and
its civic order must be well estab
lished.”
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