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June 11 Luncheon at 12:30 p. m„
a public Mass Meeting where dele
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J. E. Walker of Memphis, Tenn.,
under the sponsorship of the Falls
City Chamber of Commerce; and a
Special Luncheon meeting at which
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The Courier Journal and Times.
Luncheon speaker will be Mark
Etheridge, Editor of the Courier
Journal, and former Chairman of
the President’s Committee on Fair
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Cleveland—Louisville, Kentucky
will be the seen#, of the Fourth An
nual Conference of the Negro News
paper Publishers Association June
11 and 12, 1943, where in a three
day streamlined conference at the
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discuss problems growing out r,f
the war.
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this week through the office of the
Associaton's President O. Walker
of the Cleveland Call and Post, em
braces sessions throughout Friday
and Saturday, June 11 and 12 at
the Brock Building, and a Special
Tour by the delegates to Fort Kncx
Kentucky on Sunday, June 13, un
der the auspices of the War De
partment.
The decision of the Executive
Committee of the Association to
hold the convention in a southern
city grew out of its desire to em
phasize the importance of the Ne
gro problem in the South in the
scheme of the Negro Press’ fight
for full citizenship for American
Negroes.
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Omaha Citizens Defense Corps Urg
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become familiar with the new air
raid warning system that will be
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L. C.—My husband gives me ev
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ly happy if he would only show
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fection in “hugs and kisses” but
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S. S. c.—Should I judge the gi]l
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ther and her sisters?
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her people are not all they should
be. Her character is unblimished
and she has certainly done right
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she is and leave her people out of
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LOOKING AROUND HARLEM
«^^*8#a*J*§** (by DON DeLEIGHBUR)
NEW YORK—The John Kirby
band is a clannish outfit. The boys
have been together so long and
their minds blend along one line of
thought so completely that they
have built a tight little social circle
among themselves that few outsid
ers can crash.
When you see Buster Bailey, you
might see Charley Shavers tagging
along. K Russell Procope is on the
Avenue, he might be with either
Kirby or Bailey or O’Neill Spencer
the drummer, who last week, took
suddenly ill on the stage at the
Apollo Theatre and had to be rush
ed to the hospital.
The pianist, Clyde Hart, who took
over when Uncle grabbed off Billy
Kyle, is fast getting into the clan.
Clyde is a quiet and reserved sort
of chap who plays an awful lot of
box. The boys like him.
Socially the John Kirby outfit is
made up of the wives of the mem
bers; Mary Bailey, Margaret Kirby,
Helen Procope, Blanche Shavers,
formerly Blanche Bowman the well
known dancer; and Mrs. Hart.
One of the wives told me the oth
er night that if a family spat is go
ing on in any of the boys’ home,
the rest of the musicians won’t
speak to the wife until the situation i
has cooled off.
Izzy Grove, the promoter, told
me that he welcomes Negro pat
ronage at his affairs, most of wh:ch
are given in the Broadway area on
Saturday night. He went all out
on the Barnet presentation and ov
er 600 colored dancers went down
from Harlem.
Barnet has Howard McGhee,
trumpeter; Trummie Young, trom
bonist; Oscar Pettiford 0n bass and
Peanuts Holland on cornet. These
colored boys are with the band on
all its dates or there won’t be any
dates at all, according to the way
Barnet operates. And that includ
es hotels, ballrooms, theatre and
nightclubs, plus the movies. Bar
net is considered the “whitest”
man in show biz.
*****
Teabone Walker, singer of the
lowdown blues, has Harlem by the
ears this week. Teabone popped
in with the Milton Larkin band, a
new aggregation for these pares,
and mopped up at the Apollo where
the band is now finishing out ils
week’s engagement.
Teabone brought something to
Harlem that wasn’t there—the blu
es. In Harlem the emphasis is on
sweet music and commercial swing.
It is a fact that there are few
Negro musicians around Harlem
who know the blues and like them
well enough to play and sing them
as they should be played and sung.
That’s why Cafe Society catapulted
into the national limelight as a
mecca of blues and boogie woogie.
No spot in Harlem features the
blues nor features a real, honest
to-goodness blues singer, excepting
the Elks Rendezvous where Albin
ny Jones is going to town every
night.
Teabone Walker woke the good
folks around here up to what they
have been missing_the blues
sung only as a native of Texas can
chirp ’em.
JIMMY GENTRY
IN CHIGUGO
(Continued from page 1)
whose business it is to handle
drunks. CHICAGO—and what a
town.._this “City of Winds’ is
crammed with excellent characters.
People with whom anyone would:
like to converse or visit. One of •
the most widely respected and
deeply admired men I ever knew
is Judge Patrick B. Prescott. Judge
is a superbly tolerant individual
who does not know what it means
to be smug and hypocritical.
The Kirby gang topped the Ap
ollo presentation in a big way last
week, especially after Troy Brown
and Baron Lee were off the stage.
Complaints were registered bv
many in the audiences who saw the
show that “people today don’t like
all that vulgarity from performers.
It isn’t necessary at all to get
laughs.”
Brown and Lee, both veto:1
went to the heights in turning •
stomachs of most of the better
class element that came to the Ap
ollo to hear Kirby and see the rest
of the show.
The jokes used were definitely
on the blue side and the sort of
thing that gives Negro showfolk
a black eye- Neither needed to
crack such filthy tales. Neither
had the need to put on sketches
that were definitely out of order in
any civilized community theatre.
For example: while Lee was sing
ing a song in French, Brown, who
weighs at least 300 lbs. was walk
ing around the stage doing a strip
tease act with all the unsubtle ges
tures that go with such an exhib
ition. Frank Schiffman muffed
that one.
*****
Charlie Barnet, who is doing
more today in actual practice to
demonstrate what democracy real
ly means, took his band which fea
tures four topflight Negro music
ians, to the Hotel Riverside Plaza
on 73rd street in downtown Goth
am Saturday night to play for tile
Young Men’s League affair.
to carry on alone. Your wife does
not like the idea of taking the child
ren out of their present environ
ment and occupying them up in a
| roorriing house. This is war time,
brother, and your part in it should
I be to do the best you can and
make the best of life in the city.
You can arrange to spend a few
days a month with your family.
R. T. T.—I am not sick but I am
worried all the time and can't
rest. I believe my husband is the
cause of it. What must I do to b:
happy again?
Ans: You just have too muon
.time on your hands. If you w:lj
| find some worthwhile interest or
I work, you won't have the time t'>
sit around and pick faults With
your husband. Why don’t you
join the other ladies in your com
munity in their war activities.
There’s work to be done and the
Red Cross will welcome your ser
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Atty Euclid L. Taylor is about
ready to crack the cast from liis
broken leg which he received from
a horse throw-Maxis Barbour
(Commissioner Sneed’s “sec”.) pre
dicts a hot “August Day’ for the
East-West game here to end the
huge membership drive.Dr.
James McCaskell is out of Provid
ent Hospital where he took a much
needed rest_.. Horace ICayton is
fast becoming a civic leader of the
first rank-The Billy Kirtleys
are up in their Michigan grape)
farm for a week or so_What has
happened to Edith Know-Fuller?..
... .After scanning through the Bill
of Rights while riding a bus last
Friday, I now realize that Liberty
(if we can get it) is something more
than the head of a goddess on a
dime_..“Cabin in the Sky” closed
Friday night at Regal—and we are
glad... .Well, it appears that the
DeLisa and Cocktails for Two Tav
erns are going to g3t their licenses
back, and will probably be open by
the time you read this. ... Fisk’s
Andrew W. Allison is the new
Provident Hospital Supt.Monk
Harris is working for “Uncle Sam”
He’s a Quartermaster employee...
Pretty Dolores Brown is starring
at the Rhumboogie. •• .Nahum Bras
cher is still the grand greet-a-guy
of this town_Uncle Bob wants
his friends to write him more... .
Alberta Hunter is at a loop nitery
’hirping ditties... .Leonard Reed j
passed through “Chi” enroute west. ;
|i Plain Talk.. :l
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ELMER A. CARTER
"When this war is over there will
be thousands of colored boys who
have gone down to the sea in ships.
There will not be a few who have
studied navigation and meteorolgoy
and other sciences necessary to
guide ships over the trackless
oceans. And there will be ships,
hundreds and thousands of ships
available for commerce,'to convoy
the raw materials of undeveloped
countries to the harbors of the
great industrial countries. i
The United States is going to he
a real competitor for world com
merce when this war is over. Make
no mistake about that. Great Brit
ain’s strangle hold on world ship
ping and on world commerce is go
ing to be broken and the right to
equal access to the raw materials
of the earth is going to be demand
ed and achieved by he United Stat
es. No matter what the cost—no
matter how great the resistance.
A new century and a new world
is in the making. Americans will
penetrate the remote and hither-to
forbidden hinterland of Africa, of
India, of China. Wherever there
is gold or tin or precious stones or
Cassava, or palm oil or cocoa, or
copper or hemp, or iron, Americans
will seek and find it. American
ships manned by American crews
will follow engineers, prospectors,
and merchants. In their holds wi-l
be carried the riches of the earth
for exchange or sale to those where
ever they are who want them.
Commerce transformed a little
island into the British Empire. It j
made possible the rise of the great
city-states of Venice and of Genoa
during the Renaissance. It enabl
ed Holland and Belgium to emerge
from static poverty to great wealth.
It has been the difference between
national weakness and national
strength. It is the interstate com
merce within the United States be
tween the states which has com
pensated for its lack of overseas
commerce and enabled America to
become a great and powerful na
tion. „
The one thing about this program
of the late Marcus Garvey which
had a chance of success was his ill
fated venture into foreign comm
erce. The causes of this failure of
his dream of a black political em
pire need not be discussed here.
But his plan to acquire ships and
to compete for a share of the world
commerce directing his efforts to
those countries predominantly Ne
gro in population had much to
commend it. “But even the great
white shipping companies must be
subsidized’’ I can hear the critics
saying. “What chance has a Ne
gro company?”
Well, this is not a crusade for a ,
Negro shipping company. But it
is a suggestion that it might be in
the realm of possibility to interest
white and Negro capital in a ship
ping venture after the war is over.
There might well be commercial
liason between the people of Nig
eria and the Gold Coast who raise
sixty percent of the world’s cocoa
and whose rights to the resources
and products of their native land
are incontestable.
For almost a quarter of a cent
ury ther-y cocoa .'rowers of Niger
ia and the Gold Coast have sought
to sell their products directly to
America and to other parts of the
world. They have waged a sus
tained and courageous fight against
powerful British interests who have
sought to control the price and the
market. They have been duped by
American companies which bought
their cocoa and then avoided pay
ment for it. And they have learn
ed bitter lessons.
America is the greatest cocoa ,
consuming country in the world, i
; The greatest producers of cocoa
are black men from the West
Coast of Africa. There are ships
1 and men to sail them. We might
plan to make a bridge between the
Negro farmers of Nigeria and the
Gold Coast and the American Negro
EntrepeneUr which might be the
beginning of the pareicipation of
the American Negro in world com
merce. It’s worth our thinking a
bout.
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(Continued from page 1) l
who are sick or have been beaten.
These men are used to being treat
ed in a decent way, as citizens, and
as soldiers should be treated sim
ilarly; and this expectation on thf-dr
part appears to be the cause of the
insults and brutalities that have
been inflicted upon them by white
soldiers and officers at this camp.
These soldiers and officers are
prejudiced againse Negroes and
particularly hate Northern Negroes
who have been used to enjoying
citizens rights".
“Such treatment has damaged
seriously the morale of thesd
trained soldiers and the reports
concerning it, which will be used
by Nazi agents ,and which are
more than likely to be true because,
of the well known attitude of many
southern whites toward Negroes,
can seriously affect the morale of
Negroes throughout the country
and their faith in the Justice with
which their country treats them”.
“In order to dispel these stories
as baseless rumors if they are Un
true, or to remedy the conditions if
they are true, I respectfully urge
that you appoint a commission of
prominent civilians, to include at
least one prominent Negro leader
such as‘Judge William H. Hastie
who was formerly with the War
Department, to make a complete in
vestigation and a prompt report.
Many of the parents and members
o fthe 369th are members of the i
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of our organization, whose patriot
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through the purchase of bonds and
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