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Race Riot Feared as Sheriff Kills Soldier
ASK REMOVAL OF REGIMENT
JACKSON, Miss,, June 8 (ANPl—
Rearing serious race riots as the
result of the killing of a Negro sol
dier Sunday. Gov. Paul B. Johnson
has asked the war department to
move the 364th Infantry- regiment
to a northern station.
The 364th was recently ordered;*
to Camp Van Dorn near here from
Phoenix, Arizona.
Gov. Johnson asked for a war
FREE T uberculin Skin test June 14 Snm
On Monday evening, June I4*h
at 6 p.m. the public is invited and
urged to go to either the Urban
League Community Center, 2111
Lake St., or to the Woodson Cen
ter, 3009 “R” Street and receive a
FREE Tuberculin Skin test. Pre
serve yollr health—GO MONDAY.
'department investigation, following
the incident, accompanied by a re
quest for action from Centerville’s
Mayor Omer Carroll.
The governor said he also asked
Sen, Bilbo and Eastland to advise
Secretary of War Henry L. Stim
son to seek an immediate investi
gation and not only the removal of
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Families Sought for W.-Coast Shipyard Jobs
On the Airwaves Sunday
Should Race
Tension .. .
Divide
America?
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
TO BE SUBJECT OF RADIO
BROADC AST, SUNDAY, JUNE
13—6:45 PA
New York City, June 4, 1943.._
On June 13, Norman Thomas and
A. Philip Randolph, National Dir
ector of the March on Washington
Movement, International President
ccf the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters and noted Negro leader,
will discuss “MUST RACE TEN
SION i*fVi©E AMERICA?” '
This talk will be carried Sunday,
June 13th over WQXR, New York,
City, at 1:45 P.M.; WOL, Washing
ton, D.C. at 10:45 P.M., WAIT, Chi
cago at 6:45 P.M.; WJLB, Detroit,
at 6:15 P.M.; KYA, San Francisco,
at 5:45 P.M.; and on Monday over
KPAS, Los Angeles at 6:00 P.M. It
will also be carried over some 30
stations scattered from coast to
coast.
The full text of the talk is as iol
lows:
NORMAN THOMAS: If I were
asked to name the single most a
larming factor in the American
domestic scene, I should say it was
the growth of racial tension, es
pecially between whites and color
ed Americans. Except perhaps at
1
the height of the KlU KlUz Klan 1
mania, I have never known it
worse. The reason is not that the
objective situation is worse. In
deed we have made some improve
ments before the war and even
during the war in reducing various
hurtful discriminations, but prog
resh even in getting rid of the
shame of lynching has been too
slow to keep up with the rise in
resentment. This war which to
thousands of Negroes seems a
»
white man’ war, a struggle of
white people for power and not for
human liberation, emphasizes the
htrain in race relations.
Too many of us white Americans
who are right in denouncing the
monstrous Nazi doctrine of the
master race, then turn around and
practice this same doctrine toward
our colored neighbors. It is a doc
trine with no more scientific sup
port in America than Germany.
I have just been reading Rack
ham Holt’s life of one of the out
standing scientists and human be
ings of our time, George Washing
ton Carver. This Negro boy, born
in slavery, torn with his mother
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CITED BY KANSAS U.
ETTA MOTEN. one of 12 alumni
of the University of Kansas who
are the recipients this year of the
“Citation for Distinguished Serv
ice” by the Alumni Association of
KU. A commanding general and
the mayor of Kansas City. Mo-,
were among the 12 receiving the a~
wards. Miss Moten. a graduate of
the School of Fine Arts at the Un
iversity, began her concert, radio
and dramatic career shortly after
her graduation.
Miss Moten was to appear at the
university commencement exercis
es this month for the public pres
entation of the award, but because
she is currently starring in “Porgy
and Bess”, could not do so.
Two other colored graduates of
.KI' have been awarded similar
citWions in years past. These are
Bishop John a. Gregg of the AME.
Church and Lt. Col. M. O. Bous
field, head of the station hospital
at Fort HUachuca, Arizona.
CIVIL SERVICE
APPOINTMENTS
If you want a job in the West
Coast ship yards you can take y*«r
family as the Navy invites every
one.
The Civil Service Commission is
making a special effort to recruit
entire families as there is a job
for every member over 16 years
of age capable of physical work.
Those individuals desiring to as
sist in the war effort will be ap
pointed here and transportation
paid by the government. At time
of appointment the Civil Service
Commission makes reservations
for housing accommodations. Com
plete family housing facilities are
available and reservations are de
finitely made before applicants
leave their homes and communities
Meals for employees are served
at cost in government-sponsored
cafeterias.
The Civil Service Commission has
urgent need for skilled workers at
San Pedro, California; Mare Island
at Vallejo. California; Hunter's
Point Dry Docks at San Francisco,
California; and Puget Sound at
Btemerton, Washington.
-gay ranges from 88c to $1.28 per
hour.
If you have any special skills and
are not now employed in an es
sential war industry you may ap
ply at the Omaha Branch Regional
Office of the 8th Civil Service
Region, 1303 WOW. Building in O
maha or at our Civil Service Sec
retaries in any first or second clnsa
post office. If you are now em
ployed in an essential war indus
try do not apply for work it tha
Navy Ship Yards '.mess yoa can
secure a release or statement of a
valiability from ypUi employer.
This is an opportunity fo1' the
family to work together on a Civil
Service position with the West
Coast Navy Yards in a most im
t or tan t war occupation.
FLIER IN DC.
Washington, D. C.—(PPS, Inc.)—
—Lt. Willa Brown, of the Chicago
Civilian Air Patrol, which is now
a War Department unit, is in Wash
ington for a short stay. Lt. Brown
came here for an important con
ference with Lt. Col. Jack Vilas
who is the Executive Officer for
| Washngton’s Civilian Air Patrol.
' Lt. Brown is the Adjutant to Squad
ron 613-6. She is the supervisor
for the Coffey School of Aeronaut
ics in Harlem Airport, Oaklawn,
111. She is also Coordinator of War
Training of the Civil Aeronautic
Administration, which supervise*
the Enlisted Reservists of the Air
Corps. She holds CAA., Ground
School Instructor. Aircraft and Air
craft engine Mechanic, and Third
Class Radio Operator certificates.
She has had more than a thousand
hours of flying. Lt. Brown took
part in the recent ‘‘sham” bomb
ing of Chicago, under the super
vision of Mayor Edward J. Kelly,
Coordinator of Civilian Defense in
the Metropolitan Area.
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Packard Strike Hit
at Detroit Meeting
NAACP HEAD BLAMES CO. (•
MANAGEMENT; CALLS
WALKOUT BOON TO AXIS
DETROIT, Michigan.. ..‘‘Tokio
and Berlin rejoice tonight’ at the
effective and unexpected aid given
them today by the Management of
the Packard Motor Company," Wal
ter White, NAACP executive sec
retary told delegates from 36 stat
eh at the opening meeting of the
NAACP Emergency War Confer
ence here on June 3.
White blamed three of the Pack
ard officials, C. E. Weiss, person
nel manager, George Schwartz,
general foreman, and Robert Watts
of the personnel division for the
striking of 26,000 white workers
and the stoppage of the production
of Rolls Royce airplanes.
The management of the Packard
Car had urged whites to refuse to
work on machines alongside Negro
es qualified by seniority, training
and experience.
‘ American boys will die on some
fair off battle field for lack of en
gines which were not made in De
troit today,” White said. He was
applauded when he added “every
man responsible for this strike and
every other one like it is an al!y
and an agent of Hitler and Hiroh
ito and an enemy of America.”
White was the keynote speaker
at the opening of the conference on '
“The Status of the Negro in the .
War for Freedom” at the Second
Baptist Church, 441 Monroe street.
Conference delegates were wel
comed to Detroit by Albert E.
Cobo, city treasurer; L. C. Blount,
leading Detroit buihness man; Ra
mon Scruggs of the NAACP De
troit branch, Shelton TappeS. who
spoke for labor, Rabbi Morris Ad
ler. and Rev. R. L. Bradby, pastor
of the Second Baptist Church.
In greeting the delegates on be
half of the citizens of Detroit, Rab
bi Adler asserted: “If all we win is
a military victory, we will have to
our credit the most futile and
tragic endeavor in whch man in
hih folly has ever engaged.... we
are here to push the war on the
social, economc and political field.
We will not stop until every man
comes into his own_..unless this
war leads to total freed jm it shall i
be a total failure.”
Rev. Bradley in whose church the •
three day conference convened,
and who spoke for the ministers of
Detroit ,cha -ged the delegates to
remember ‘‘No Negro is free in De
troit while one Negro is in peon
age in Mississippi. We are fight
ing two wars,” he said, “one for
Europe where Hitler and Mussol
ini must be put out of business and
one in America where the Negro
must be free.”
The delegates heard messages of
greeting from President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Secretary of In
terior Harold L. Ickes. Wendell l
Willkie and numerous other im- I
portant public figures.
“In every phase of war activity |
j —on oUr myriad home fronts as J
! well as our far flung battle fronts
j—the Negro people have given un
| stintingly to our war effort.’’ the
President wrote. “Colored Ameri
cans are now working in our war
plants, turning out teh ships, the
planes and the guns with which we
are carrying the war to the enemy.
Negro youths from homes througn
; out the country are serving in the
Army, Navy, the Marine Corps and
the Coast Guard. They are fight
ing on every front and in every
arm and branch of the service.
“One of the most significant con
tributoins which Negroes have
made to the war is on the home'
front in mobilizing Civilian Defense
units, purchasing War Bonds, and
supporting rationing programs.
i
while at the same time contribut
ing largely to increased food pro
duction. Through these ofttimes
unheralded activities, our Negro
citizens have helped the United
Nations by demonstrating that A
merica is a united nation. It is
my hope that your present confer
ence will further accelerate all of
these gains.”
APPOINTED CHAIRMAN
COLORED ACTIVITIES
Because of his efficiency in such
matters, Attorney Ray L. Williams
has been appointed chairman of
Colored activities of the Natioial
Legion Convention by Omaha Post
No. 1. The Convention will be m
September, but Williams has al
ready started organizing his com
mittee and assigning specific dut
ies for each member. Williams is
a tireless worker in Roosevelt Post
and is chairman of its house com
mittee.
GIRLS SM B GOV’T DORMS
Wish-ngton, June 11 (ANPi.
Negro girls are not falling all over
themselves in an effort to acquire
rooms in the new dormitories.
Wake Island and Guam, over on
Benning road. The manager says
there are aout 250 vacancies on
hand, ready for occuancy. How
ever, the location of the building, I
the steep rents charged are Miti
gating causes of the failure for a
rusjh for accomodations. Rentals
are considerably higher than in the
city where transportation is avail
able all nite long. Out where the
dormitories are located, after cer
tain hours bus service is atrocious.
NAACP.
To Hold!
Meeting
There will be a mass meeting
of the local branch of the NAACP.
held Sunday, June 13, at 4 p.m. at
Cleaves Temple CME. church of
which Rev. L. A. Story is the pas
tor.
The program is as follows:
Dr. A. L. Hawkins. Presiding.
Negro National Anthem . .
I Invocation .. Rev. L. A. Story
Solo .Mrs. Irene Morton
Remarks ..._Dr. A. L. Hawkins
Music.
“Negro in the News_..Mr. J. Dil
lard Crawford
Solo .Mrs. LUcy Mae Britt
Talk . Rev. E. F. Ridley
Appeal for Memberships..
Talk .Mr. H. J. Pinkett
Star Spangled Banner .....
Benediction .Rev. J. A. Stains
TO TRAIN
WOMEN FOR
SIGNAL CORP
Omaha, Nebr., —First classes of
their kind now are being organiz
ed by the Seventh Service Comm
and for training women between
the ages of 21 and 45 years for sig
nal corps communication work as
a part of WAAC war activities.
These classes of about 60 mem
bers each will be held in the jun
ior college at Trinidad, Colo., and
in Hadley Technical high school at
St. Louis for terms of three months
Those who satisfactorily complete
the course and show sufficient apt
itude, will be given three months
additional and advanced training.
The two courses cover radio code
operation, radio an teletype writer
operation, switchboard nstallations
and other like signal corps duties.
Purpose of the courses is to pro
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"for Advancement of the Negro Race”
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DETROIT, (Press Photo Serv
| ice, Inc.) Judge William Henry
Hastie is shown above accepting
the 1942 NAACP's Spingarn Medal
from Congressman Will Rogers, Jr.
| The ceremony took place in De
troit at Olmpia Park on Sunday af
- ternoon, June 6, climaxing a four
Camp
Queen
Great I-akes, 111. (PPS. Inc.) -
Lovely Elinor Green who wag a
Drum Majorette of DuSable has
been selected as the. Photo Queen
•f the Month by Camp Robert
Smalls sailors. This | eye-filling,
shapely Miss got a unanimous vote
from a score of Camp Robert
Smalls’ “Bluejackets” for the title
of the “Photo Queen of the Month
mt May"!
Miss Green receives her mail at
5825 Prairie Ave., Chicago, 111.
The contest is still running girls!
Send in your photos! For full de
tails look for blank inside of paper.
day War Emergency Conference
of the NAACP. Judge Hastie, for
mer Civilian Aide to the Secretary
of War. was given the Medal in
recognition of services for ad
vancement of the Negro' race,
judge Hastie- took prfft in a reso
lution perpared by himself and a
special committee which was adopt
ed by the entire NAAC . Delega
tion. It demanded an end to se
gregation and discrimination a
gainst Negroes in the armed serv
ices and called on resident Roose
velt, as CommanJer in Chief of all
the armed forces, to exert his pow
ers to end this discrimination,
pointing out that the Marines and
Coast Guard do not have any col
ored commissioned officers, that
Negro women are not admitted to
the WAVES and that Negroes are
not admitted in required numbers
to the Air Forces. The resolution
said, “We call on resident Roose
velt to Use his power now or Cd
I ored people all over the world will
I justly regard the “Four Freedoms’’
| as hypocrisy.’’ This resolution, to
gether with other workings of the
delegates and officials, played a
great part in bringing to an end
the strike of 25,000 employees of
the Packard Motor Co., which fol
I lowed the upgrading to better jobs
of three Negro workers.
Legion of Merit ito 4 Negro Soldiers
for Outstanding Service at Guaducanal
The War Department announced
the award of the Legion of Merit
to our Negro enlisted men for ex
ceptionally meritorious services
rendered at Guadalcanal.
The men who received the award
are: Ben W. Pettis, Private First
Class. Infantry. Home address:
Senatobia, Miss.; Jessie Harris. Pri
vate, Infantry. Home address:
Tuskegj-e, Alabama.; Verna C.
Neal, Private, Infantry, Home ad
dress. Ruleville, Miss.; Henry
Smith. Jr.. Private. Infantry. Home
address. Good Pine, La. Following
is the text for the citatio*.—
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“For exceptionally meritorious
conduct in the performance of out
standing services on March 27,
1943 at Guadalcanal, by leaving the
comparative safety afforded by a
slit trench and advancing some
250 yards over open terrain, expos
ed to bombing fr'om an enemy air
raid, in order to assist in evacuat
ing casualties. This undertaking
was accomplished although enemy
action continued, causing impene
trable dust, and confusion prevail
ed. Exceptional coolness and effic
iency during exposure to danger
were displayed while evacuating
the wounded."
SUMMER WELLES PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AT N. C. COLLEGE FOR NEGROES COMMEMENT EXERCISES
Many wnite notables, including
Under Secretary of State Sumner
^ Welles, principal speaker, were in
attendance at the commencement
exercises or North Carolina Col
lege for Negroes, Durham, last
Monday. In the photograph arc,
left to right. Dr. R. L. Flowers.
president of Duke University and
chairman of the board of trustees.
North Carolina college: Gov. J.
Melville Broughton, President Jam
es E. Shepard. Mr. Welles, Joseph
us Daniels and Dean W. W. Pier
son of the University of North Car
olina. (ANP)